Star Dust Time

by Marti Jones

Since the Fable Comet streaked across the night sky only once every 100 years, Adrian Sheppard hoped taking pictures of it would start her on a new career. How could she have guessed that the celestial body would transport her back to the time of its last appearance--and the one man on earth who needed her most. From the author of A Love Through Time.

Genres: Time Travel, Romance

392 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 1995

About the author

Marti Jones is the best-selling author of six Historical and time-travel novels. She has been a finalist in the Georgia Romance Writers prestigious Maggie contest for best historical, as well as local and regional contests.

She lives in Pensacola, Florida with her husband of twenty years and their three children. Her pet projects are adult literacy and the diabetes foundation and she has done numerous book signings and promotional talks for these groups. Her seventh book, Sinful, is an August 1999 release for Kensington Books.

Reviews

[Paranormal Romance · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thrust back in time after a meteor strikes her car, the heroine stumbles upon a rundown shack in her search for help. The man who answers is a depressed warn out yet sexy man with three small children and a farmer to tend to alone. He mistakes her for the wife he's posted an ad for but the heroine's in no place to deny him after realizing where and when she is. She agrees to help around the place until she finds a way home but only as a housekeeper and babysitter for his kids. They fall into a quiet and peaceful life and the heroine, who knew absolutely nothing about kids or housekeeping begins to take pleasure in having her own home, even if it's just for a short time. She also falls hard for the hero who is nothing but a kind, sweet and gentle man.

There was a pretty strong message laced through the book that true happiness comes when a woman has a family and a home but I didn't mind it. The heroine did enjoy pleasing the hero in little ways like helping on the farm and rising early to take on some of his chores when planting season overwhelmed him. I liked the homely vibe to the whole story and loved the sexual tension between the two characters. They don't even kiss until half way through the book but throughout is a defiantly awareness of each other and it steadily grows and builds as the story goes on. The heroine was a nice girl who tended to run when things got hard and when it's clear she has nowhere else to go, she's finally forced to pause and work her way through it. It frustrated me to no end that she would even want to go back to her time when nothing was waiting for her there but debt, loneliness and no job. Just imagining the hero's blue eyes shining with love as me would make me never ever think about leaving. I really liked this book. Though it is a softly paced book describing basic farm life in the old days, I was never board.

[gremlinkitten · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars
I found this to be a sweet story. Not the best time-travel romance I've read, but it is far from the worst. Rome and Adrian were pleasant characters, although Adrian's constant questioning and thought process could get annoying at times. The end was a bit rushed and I wish it could have been a little different, but it was decent. Still, I thought it was a lovely story with likeable, and one not so likeable, characters.

[Kristiej · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'll admit it's been years since I read this book but I remember enjoying it very much and looking for other books by this author. Alas I never found any. It's one of the books I'd love to see come out as an ebook so I could get a copy

[penelopewanders · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bit of time travel fluff. Entertaining... received in a prize book box.