The daughter of a town marshal, Linda Lael Miller is a #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than 100 historical and contemporary novels, most of which reflect her love of the West. Raised in Northport, Washington, Linda pursued her wanderlust, living in London and Arizona and traveling the world before returning to the state of her birth to settle down on a spacious property outside Spokane. Linda traces the birth of her writing career to the day when a Northport teacher told her that the stories she was writing were good, that she just might have a future in writing. Later, when she decided to write novels, she endured her share of rejection before she sold Fletcher’s Woman in 1983 to Pocket Books. Since then, Linda has successfully published historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, mysteries and thrillers before coming home, in a literal sense, and concentrating on novels with a Western flavor. For her devotion to her craft, the Romance Writers of America awarded her their prestigious Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Long a passionate Civil War buff, Linda has studied the era avidly for almost thirty years. She has read literally hundreds of books on the subject, explored numerous battlegrounds and made many visits to her favorite, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where she has witnessed re-enactments of the legendary clash between North and South. Linda explores that turbulent time in The Yankee Widow, a May 7, 2019 MIRA Books hardcover, also available in digital and audiobook formats. Dedicated to helping others, “The First Lady of the West” personally financed fifteen years of her Linda Lael Miller Scholarships for Women, which she awarded to women 25 years and older who were seeking to improve their lot in life through education. She anticipates that her next charitable endeavors will benefit four-legged critters. More information about Linda and her novels is available at www.lindalaelmiller.com, on Facebook and from Nancy Berland Public Relations, nancy@nancyberland.com, 405-206-4748.
Each story got worse and worse...complete waste of time. I kept thinking "maybe the next one will get better..." Didn't happen. You want a good time travel book, try Karen Marie Moning.
The stories are decent. The last one was the spiciest of the four and probably my absolute favorite. Over all it was an enjoyable quick read and kept me decently entertained.
This is a group of four stories by different authors, I orginally picked it up because I am a fan of Linda Lael Miller. But all the stories are really good. My favorites are actually Out of Time and Echoes of Love.
In the first book, A Midsummer Day's Dream our heroine falls back in time and gets a small taste of how people might have been back in the day. The lack of knowledge in medicine and being clean, the brutality in combat and how anything, especially a woman falling back into time could be thought to be a witch and burned or hung. When her lover dies she finds a way to get back to her own time and across the span of time her lover also finds a way back to her.
Lovers of the Golden Drum is the second story in this book and I haven't googled this one yet, I think there might be some truth to the legend used to make this story. Its interesting enough to make me curious to want to look up the legend of The Golden Drum. The heroine in this book didn't fall back into time so much as she is a soul trying to save herself from making the same mistakes made in previous lives.
Out of Time is the third story and definately my favorite. I love how our heroine just falls back into time and gives you a birds eye view of what it would probably really be like to fall back into an entirely different era in Cornwall England. You would have the clothing to deal with, the smell from unbathed bodies and unbrushed teeth, the people fearing you and thinking your a witch and wishing to burn you or some such thing, the food, the lack of all our modern conviences. Once she gets a grip on herself and understands what has happened on some level she starts to clean! She is thought to be a bit strange to say the least.
The fourth book is Echoes of Love and while the beginning is rather sad, or I should say the middlish because it takes about that long to get through the dream. This book isn't about falling into time, its about two souls meeting each other again. An unlikely love that ends very badly and a woman who waits a lifetime to return to her love and the woman who is herself but also this woman brought back and its a very interesting twist. Its almost all seen through a dream by our heroine who is not aware until the end that she is one of the souls brought back to her love.
I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this book. If your a fan of time travel books or on reincarnation and finding lost love, then this book is definately one you should give a try.
More of a 2.5 or less, so I couldn't give it that 3 rating.
I'm gonna state again I personally do not enjoy time travel (reincarnation) types of stories. So my view on these stories probably won't be what the authors might like.