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Ladies Prefer Rogues
Four of today's most cherished romance novelists prove that when it comes to love, there's no time like the present no matter what century you're in.
In New York Times bestselling author Janet Chapman's "Man from the Moon," a young woman encounters a band of 23rd-century warriors on a mission to save mankind. But when one of them is wounded, she is his only hope for life and for love.
In "Tomorrow is Another Day," New York Times bestselling author Sandra Hill plunges a woman back in time to post-Civil War Louisiana, where the poor southern belle must make a living as a matchmaker. Now, if she could only get her handsome neighbor to join in.
A 17th-century Scotsman avenges the death of his greatest love and becomes a notorious pirate for twenty years. When the past and present become entangled, he wonders if it could be his haunted heart adrift in "The Drowning Sea" by national bestselling author Veronica Wolff.
USA Today bestselling author Trish Jensen spins a fetching fable about a woman from the Wild West who lands in modern day Nevada. The gruff local sheriff can hardly believe her story, or that he'd never fall so hard for an older woman older by "Sixteen Decades".
In New York Times bestselling author Janet Chapman's "Man from the Moon," a young woman encounters a band of 23rd-century warriors on a mission to save mankind. But when one of them is wounded, she is his only hope for life and for love.
In "Tomorrow is Another Day," New York Times bestselling author Sandra Hill plunges a woman back in time to post-Civil War Louisiana, where the poor southern belle must make a living as a matchmaker. Now, if she could only get her handsome neighbor to join in.
A 17th-century Scotsman avenges the death of his greatest love and becomes a notorious pirate for twenty years. When the past and present become entangled, he wonders if it could be his haunted heart adrift in "The Drowning Sea" by national bestselling author Veronica Wolff.
USA Today bestselling author Trish Jensen spins a fetching fable about a woman from the Wild West who lands in modern day Nevada. The gruff local sheriff can hardly believe her story, or that he'd never fall so hard for an older woman older by "Sixteen Decades".
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First published December 22, 2009
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Janet Chapman
28 books1,114 followersJanuary 22, 1956 – October 28, 2017
Hey guys its Jessica. Sorry I’ve been MIA for so long. I apologize for the long overdue wait for Janet’s next book. You’ve all been very patient and loyal fans that she loves. She has been working on this book over the last year and a half while dealing with her battle with cancer. It saddens me to say that she peacefully lost this battle this past weekend while her family was by her side. I apologize if this feels sudden, she was a very private person even to her family. And she truly thought of all of you as her family. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
Janet Chapman is the author of twenty-two contemporary and magical romance novels, all of which are set in her beautiful state of Maine. She lives in a cozy log home on a beautiful lake with her husband, surrounded by an eclectic assortment of wildlife that she finds both entertaining and inspiring. Probably best known for her Highlander Series (a saga of twelfth century warriors rebuilding their clans in modern-day Maine that now spans three generations), Janet also has two spin-off magical series (Midnight Bay & Spellbound Falls) and several contemporary family series set on the coast and in the mountains. With over three million books printed in six languages, her stories regularly appear on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller’s lists.
When she’s not writing (well, when she should to be writing but isn’t), Janet and her husband are traveling the state in their camper throughout all four seasons; hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, and generally rubbing elbows with Mother Nature while always keeping an eye out for colorful new characters—human and beast—to put in her stories.
author's obituary
Hey guys its Jessica. Sorry I’ve been MIA for so long. I apologize for the long overdue wait for Janet’s next book. You’ve all been very patient and loyal fans that she loves. She has been working on this book over the last year and a half while dealing with her battle with cancer. It saddens me to say that she peacefully lost this battle this past weekend while her family was by her side. I apologize if this feels sudden, she was a very private person even to her family. And she truly thought of all of you as her family. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
Janet Chapman is the author of twenty-two contemporary and magical romance novels, all of which are set in her beautiful state of Maine. She lives in a cozy log home on a beautiful lake with her husband, surrounded by an eclectic assortment of wildlife that she finds both entertaining and inspiring. Probably best known for her Highlander Series (a saga of twelfth century warriors rebuilding their clans in modern-day Maine that now spans three generations), Janet also has two spin-off magical series (Midnight Bay & Spellbound Falls) and several contemporary family series set on the coast and in the mountains. With over three million books printed in six languages, her stories regularly appear on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller’s lists.
When she’s not writing (well, when she should to be writing but isn’t), Janet and her husband are traveling the state in their camper throughout all four seasons; hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, and generally rubbing elbows with Mother Nature while always keeping an eye out for colorful new characters—human and beast—to put in her stories.
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July 25, 2011
I’m not a huge fan of anthologies. Sometimes they work for me, but most of the time they don’t. It takes an exceptional author to pull off a short story in the same vein as a novel, giving a reader characters to love, an intriguing storyline, and all those other things we look for. I had pretty good hopes for this time travel anthology. Two of the authors have given me great stories before, one hasn’t, and one I had yet to read, so I didn’t know what to expect. You can say I’m certainly surprised now that it’s all said and done.
Man from the Moon by Janet Chapman
Ms. Chapman is one of my favorite time travel authors. I’ve read her entire Highlander series to date and have loved every one of them. This novella is futuristic, so just slightly different from her Highlanders.
Warriors travel to present-day earth to try to save mankind from a catastrophic event that will happen in the future. When one of them is injured, they mistake veterinarian Isobel for an M.D.
Isobel is a strong, intelligent, and very capable woman, although one who has not been lucky in love. As she spends time with these extraordinary men, she begins to believe their story and eventually agrees to help them the best she can in their monumental and incredible task.
In the end she may have to make the ultimate sacrifice, or will she find the love that has always been out of her before?
Tomorrow Is Another Day by Sandra Hill
At the time I read this Sandra Hill story, I’d read only one other of her books and I didn’t care for it much at all. In fact, I didn’t finish it. So things didn’t bode well for me when I began this short one. And things did not get better.
As the title indicates, there’s a sort of leaning toward Gone with the Wind, but even that doesn’t save this mess. The time travel portion is actually okay. The heroine is thrown back to 1870 where she meets a man who looks eerily like someone she met in present day. What I didn’t like about this story is the attitudes of both the hero and the heroine.
Laurent is a man of his time, struggling to keep his plantation up and running. Margo, being the modern woman she is, doesn’t try to blend in other than donning clothes she’s not used to. He wants nothing to do with her, she pities him at times, but they end up in bed in no time flat. She even goes behind his back in what she calls helping out, not bothering to think ahead about how Laurent might react to such a thing, which turns out to be an over-the-top reaction that didn’t endear him to me one bit.
From the beginning there wasn’t anything that made me like these two characters, so I never really cared what happened to them throughout the story. There’s just too much silliness going on that I didn’t enjoy much about them.
The Drowning Sex by Veronica Wolff
I’m becoming more of a fan of Veronica Wolff with each book I read, especially due to the fact I wasn’t all that thrilled with her first two. She gets better and better with time. This novella is my second favorite of the four.
What is done so well is how Ms. Wolff connects past and present for these characters, and love and death which transcend time. Iain has spent twenty years trying to forget how his love died at the hands of her father and also wanting to avenge her death. He’s now an infamous pirate when fate once again intervenes in his life.
You have to read this one for yourself, because to say any more will just give too much away. Let’s just say you’ll love the twists that you’ll never expect.
Sixteen Decades by Trish Jensen
I’ve not read Ms. Jensen before, but after such enjoyment with this short story, I’m pulling her books from the TBR pile as soon as possible. This one is my favorite.
Maggie has just learned she’s inherited a brothel. Before she has time to really figure out what her father was thinking, she’s knocked out, trussed up and thrown into a shed, only to awaken sixteen decades in the future. She knows the sheriff did it.
Investigating a missing person case, Ty discovers a woman in a shed on the the Rooster Ranch property who believes he’s the culprit behind her captivity. She insists she’s a teacher from 1850, and as he gets to know her, he begins to believe every word she says and fall in love with her in the process.
Learning that it’s a world of difference for women between her time and present day, Maggie is getting used to being her own person in this strange new land. The only thing is, can she trust that sheriff’s ancestor with her heart?
So this anthology is just so-so on one hand for me, but on the other I’ve found a new author to enjoy and two others who I know will keep giving me great stories in the future. I do have to confess that since reading this book I have read one of Sandra Hill’s Viking novels, and I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. So I’m going to be giving her another go when I come across another of those books I have stashed away.
All-in-all, not as bad a time as I thought I’d have with an anthology.
See my complete review at http://www.goodbadandunread.com
Man from the Moon by Janet Chapman
Ms. Chapman is one of my favorite time travel authors. I’ve read her entire Highlander series to date and have loved every one of them. This novella is futuristic, so just slightly different from her Highlanders.
Warriors travel to present-day earth to try to save mankind from a catastrophic event that will happen in the future. When one of them is injured, they mistake veterinarian Isobel for an M.D.
Isobel is a strong, intelligent, and very capable woman, although one who has not been lucky in love. As she spends time with these extraordinary men, she begins to believe their story and eventually agrees to help them the best she can in their monumental and incredible task.
In the end she may have to make the ultimate sacrifice, or will she find the love that has always been out of her before?
Tomorrow Is Another Day by Sandra Hill
At the time I read this Sandra Hill story, I’d read only one other of her books and I didn’t care for it much at all. In fact, I didn’t finish it. So things didn’t bode well for me when I began this short one. And things did not get better.
As the title indicates, there’s a sort of leaning toward Gone with the Wind, but even that doesn’t save this mess. The time travel portion is actually okay. The heroine is thrown back to 1870 where she meets a man who looks eerily like someone she met in present day. What I didn’t like about this story is the attitudes of both the hero and the heroine.
Laurent is a man of his time, struggling to keep his plantation up and running. Margo, being the modern woman she is, doesn’t try to blend in other than donning clothes she’s not used to. He wants nothing to do with her, she pities him at times, but they end up in bed in no time flat. She even goes behind his back in what she calls helping out, not bothering to think ahead about how Laurent might react to such a thing, which turns out to be an over-the-top reaction that didn’t endear him to me one bit.
From the beginning there wasn’t anything that made me like these two characters, so I never really cared what happened to them throughout the story. There’s just too much silliness going on that I didn’t enjoy much about them.
The Drowning Sex by Veronica Wolff
I’m becoming more of a fan of Veronica Wolff with each book I read, especially due to the fact I wasn’t all that thrilled with her first two. She gets better and better with time. This novella is my second favorite of the four.
What is done so well is how Ms. Wolff connects past and present for these characters, and love and death which transcend time. Iain has spent twenty years trying to forget how his love died at the hands of her father and also wanting to avenge her death. He’s now an infamous pirate when fate once again intervenes in his life.
You have to read this one for yourself, because to say any more will just give too much away. Let’s just say you’ll love the twists that you’ll never expect.
Sixteen Decades by Trish Jensen
I’ve not read Ms. Jensen before, but after such enjoyment with this short story, I’m pulling her books from the TBR pile as soon as possible. This one is my favorite.
Maggie has just learned she’s inherited a brothel. Before she has time to really figure out what her father was thinking, she’s knocked out, trussed up and thrown into a shed, only to awaken sixteen decades in the future. She knows the sheriff did it.
Investigating a missing person case, Ty discovers a woman in a shed on the the Rooster Ranch property who believes he’s the culprit behind her captivity. She insists she’s a teacher from 1850, and as he gets to know her, he begins to believe every word she says and fall in love with her in the process.
Learning that it’s a world of difference for women between her time and present day, Maggie is getting used to being her own person in this strange new land. The only thing is, can she trust that sheriff’s ancestor with her heart?
So this anthology is just so-so on one hand for me, but on the other I’ve found a new author to enjoy and two others who I know will keep giving me great stories in the future. I do have to confess that since reading this book I have read one of Sandra Hill’s Viking novels, and I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. So I’m going to be giving her another go when I come across another of those books I have stashed away.
All-in-all, not as bad a time as I thought I’d have with an anthology.
See my complete review at http://www.goodbadandunread.com
December 30, 2024
Can I own an anthology in which I love just one story?!? You betcha!!
#1 DNF
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
#2 DNF
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
#3 FIVE STARS!!
Veronica Wolff's story is the best of all.
Loved the time travel and the connection of past and present. It is a book difficult to explain. Past and present are the story. And - who is the rogue? Iain is a brave courageous man who finds his soul mate within time and place!! He is not the definition of rogue!! Love conquers all - even time. This was very effectively done. A good epilogue is always worth the journey!!
BEST USE OF: Time travel. Bogs.
ALPHA MALE 10
SPUNKY HEROINE 10
HOT SEX 2
PROLOGUE/EPILOGUE epilogue is great!! Best Epilogue Ever
RATING
10 Keeper shelf forever
HEAT
3 Hot scenes at the end
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
#4 DNF
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COVER COVERS IT: Generic male, doesn't reflect story I liked.
HOLLYWOOD CALLING: Would make a cute movie - of course the producers would change things - so maybe it should stay a short story.
#1 DNF
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
#2 DNF
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
#3 FIVE STARS!!
Veronica Wolff's story is the best of all.
Loved the time travel and the connection of past and present. It is a book difficult to explain. Past and present are the story. And - who is the rogue? Iain is a brave courageous man who finds his soul mate within time and place!! He is not the definition of rogue!! Love conquers all - even time. This was very effectively done. A good epilogue is always worth the journey!!
BEST USE OF: Time travel. Bogs.
ALPHA MALE 10
SPUNKY HEROINE 10
HOT SEX 2
PROLOGUE/EPILOGUE epilogue is great!! Best Epilogue Ever
RATING
10 Keeper shelf forever
HEAT
3 Hot scenes at the end
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
#4 DNF
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COVER COVERS IT: Generic male, doesn't reflect story I liked.
HOLLYWOOD CALLING: Would make a cute movie - of course the producers would change things - so maybe it should stay a short story.
March 14, 2015
Ladies Prefer Rogues: Four Novellas of Time-Travel Passion (Paperback)
by Janet Chapman.
Janet Chapman's Man from the Moon, a young woman Veterinarian encounters a band of twenty-third-century warriors on a mission to save mankind. One of the warriors is wounded, she is his only hope for life - and for love.
In Tomorrow Is Another Day, by Sandra Hill plunges a woman matchmaker back in time to post-Civil War Louisiana, where the poor Southern belle must make a living as a matchmaker.
The Drowning Sea by Veronica Wolff. A seventh century Scotsman is tossed about in time and gets a second chance to save his love from the fate her father has in store for her.
Sixteen Decades by Trish Jensen spins a fetching fable about a woman from the Wild West who lands in modern day Nevada. The gruff local sheriff can hardly believe her story, or that he'd ever fall so hard for an older woman -- older by Sixteen Decades.
by Janet Chapman.
Janet Chapman's Man from the Moon, a young woman Veterinarian encounters a band of twenty-third-century warriors on a mission to save mankind. One of the warriors is wounded, she is his only hope for life - and for love.
In Tomorrow Is Another Day, by Sandra Hill plunges a woman matchmaker back in time to post-Civil War Louisiana, where the poor Southern belle must make a living as a matchmaker.
The Drowning Sea by Veronica Wolff. A seventh century Scotsman is tossed about in time and gets a second chance to save his love from the fate her father has in store for her.
Sixteen Decades by Trish Jensen spins a fetching fable about a woman from the Wild West who lands in modern day Nevada. The gruff local sheriff can hardly believe her story, or that he'd ever fall so hard for an older woman -- older by Sixteen Decades.
October 6, 2011
Anthology, four shortstories all containing time travel in one form or another.
Man from the Moon by Janet Chapman was great, Isobel encounters four men in need of help, both medical and knowledge, and it squeezed my heart at the end.
Tomorrow is Another Day by Sandra Hill is Marguerite´s travel back into time to the old south and meeting Laurent who´d in need of her and her help.
Drowning sea by Veronica Wolff was back in the Highlands, the lovestory of Iain and Cassiopeia. This was a bittersweet one, on the blue side. HEA, even if it was hard to believe when i was reading it.
Sixteen Decades by Trish Jensen where Maggie all of a sudden finds herself not in 1850 but 2010, meeting the sheriff Ty and trying to acclimatize with all the fun stuff. She made me smile more than once.
Man from the Moon by Janet Chapman was great, Isobel encounters four men in need of help, both medical and knowledge, and it squeezed my heart at the end.
Tomorrow is Another Day by Sandra Hill is Marguerite´s travel back into time to the old south and meeting Laurent who´d in need of her and her help.
Drowning sea by Veronica Wolff was back in the Highlands, the lovestory of Iain and Cassiopeia. This was a bittersweet one, on the blue side. HEA, even if it was hard to believe when i was reading it.
Sixteen Decades by Trish Jensen where Maggie all of a sudden finds herself not in 1850 but 2010, meeting the sheriff Ty and trying to acclimatize with all the fun stuff. She made me smile more than once.
March 3, 2012
This is only the second time I ventured into the pages of time travel. Also I have never read any works from any of these authors before. I enjoyed 2 out of the 4 stories within. The first one in the book by Janet Chapman and the last by Trish Jenson. Those two were well paced and kept my interest throughout. Otherwise I found the other two not to be as grabbing of interest and slower in pace. I gave four stars because I felt the other authors that I enjoyed fully should not have to feel the effects of others. If not for this I would give 3 stars.
I plan to look more into Trish Jenson and Janet Chapman's works. I enjoyed their writing style.
I plan to look more into Trish Jenson and Janet Chapman's works. I enjoyed their writing style.
March 3, 2015
Finally an anthology that was enjoyable. Of course, the stories are too short and the relationships are unbelievably fast but all in all a good collection. Janet Chapman's story Man From the Moon was great. I absolutely loved Daniel! I didn't like Sandra Hill's story Tomorrow is Another Day as much as her time traveling vikings because the story was in a time period that I don't particularly enjoy (civil war). Veronica Wolff's The Drowning Sea was sad but ended surprisingly well. And I really liked Ty Coltraine in Trish Jensen's Sixteen Decades.
October 4, 2012
I enjoyed "Man from the Moon" by Janet Chapman. I had just finished reading all of the books she has written, and this one was different but still written in a familiar voice. "Tomorrow is Another Day" by Sandra Hill was cute and funny. "Sixteen Decades" by Trish Jensen was ok, but not really a favorite. The one that really took me by surprise, though, was "The Drowning Sea" by Veronica Wolff. I fell in love with her Characters and the whole story and couldn't put it down! I am now reading her Highlander books and am very glad I found this author.
March 17, 2013
Only picked this up to read the Janet Chapman story and really didn't get in to any of the others. The Janet Chapman story was interesting but very brief. It is titled The Man from the Moon. It is a story about present day America with a time traveler from the future coming back to try to save us all from a cataclysmic event. It was ok, but the romance was a little too brief and too easy to predict. None of the other stories inspired me to read them, so that is all I can review here.
August 7, 2010
I enjoyed three of these four time travel stories. My favorite was by Chapman where men from the future need heroines medical skills. Story by Hill combined characters from her SEALS series with her historical Cajun series. Heavily skimmed third sea pirate story. 1850's teacher lands in 2010 Nevada was fun finish. Overall rating 3.5*
June 21, 2010
I really enjoyed these novellas. The romances were fun and engaging and I loved the time travel. I don't think I've read anything by any of these authors before and I plan on looking for more of their works.
March 17, 2012
4 in 1, time travel. Somewhat abrupt endings, though good stories. My least favorite was Drowning Sea, as that was confusing. Really could have gone for more of Man from the Moon. Fun quick read.
August 5, 2012
Janet Chapman was great as always. Trish Jensen made me want to read more of her work. Sandra Hill was ok. Veronica Wolff was a bit boring and had no interested plot twists and people didn't behave as you would expect.
December 19, 2012
the novellas were okay. I got this mostly because of Janet Chapman and that I like her books... but didn't even much care for her part of this Anthology.
December 13, 2010
An interesting set of 4 stories by four authors. two familiar names and two new to me authors. Anything by Sandra Hill is a must have, and this is no exception. A good choice to for light reading.
May 29, 2011
A great time-travel stories from 4 authors. Loved it!
January 7, 2013
I enjoyed 3 of the 4 stories. Not that the 4th was bad but just didn't care for the characters as much.
August 31, 2013
Fun time-travel stories. Didn't enjoy Sandra Hill's story, so I quit reading that one.
The other three were a worthwhile read.
The other three were a worthwhile read.
January 22, 2018
I read two of the four short stories in this anthology:
“Man from the Moon” by Janet Chapman – 4-stars
While there is both humor and there are challenges that must be faced, “Man from the Moon” was not quite at the level of Janet Chapman’s paranormal, Scottish romances. However, I enjoyed seeing her present a different type of time-travel romance.
“The Drowning Sea” by Veronica Wolff – 4-stars
Here is a romance between Iain and Charlotte, two people from diametrically opposed backgrounds. Their love grows gradually not always believably, until they are separated by Charlotte’s father. However, the time-travel in this short story is very different than other time-travel adventures that I have read, and it provided a surprise ending.
“Man from the Moon” by Janet Chapman – 4-stars
While there is both humor and there are challenges that must be faced, “Man from the Moon” was not quite at the level of Janet Chapman’s paranormal, Scottish romances. However, I enjoyed seeing her present a different type of time-travel romance.
“The Drowning Sea” by Veronica Wolff – 4-stars
Here is a romance between Iain and Charlotte, two people from diametrically opposed backgrounds. Their love grows gradually not always believably, until they are separated by Charlotte’s father. However, the time-travel in this short story is very different than other time-travel adventures that I have read, and it provided a surprise ending.
January 20, 2021
It was a collection of stories by 4 different authors.
There wasn't much to the stories at all. Not very memorable, very predictable and cliched. It certainly passed the time but nothing worth keeping.
There wasn't much to the stories at all. Not very memorable, very predictable and cliched. It certainly passed the time but nothing worth keeping.
September 8, 2025
Ladies Prefer Rogues
These four stories were well worth the reading. Each author has kept me in stiches and giggles to the bitter end. Time for me to go and pick up the next book listed by each of them.
These four stories were well worth the reading. Each author has kept me in stiches and giggles to the bitter end. Time for me to go and pick up the next book listed by each of them.
September 9, 2023
I really enjoyed the first story but I don’t enjoy time travel stories so I didn’t enjoy 2 others.
February 4, 2010
REVIEWED BY AMANDA
Man from the Moon by Janet Chapman
This charming story is about Isobel, a doctor of veterinary medicine and what happens when a band of warriors from the future mistake her for an M.D. The men in this story have been sent back in time to save mankind from an event that will happen in the future and they are the only hope of success.
While on this mission one of their party is injured and is in urgent need of medical attention. This leads to a case of misunderstandings on the part of the Moon Man sent for help and her arrives back with Isobel who is their only hope.
As with all if Janet Chapman’s heroines, Isobel is a strong accomplished and self sufficient female who has bad choice in men. But during her time with the Moon men she finds herself believing their story and in turn falling for her patient, she vows to do anything she can to help them on their mission and try to keep her heart in tact; will she succeed in helping the future of mankind and finding her one true love? Or will she have to make the ultimate sacrifice?
I loved this story and it left me hoping that there will be more from the moon men at a future date.
Tomorrow is Another Day by Sandra Hill
Having never read anything by Sandra Hill before I was unsure what to expect but was excited at the prospect of a new to me author. Tomorrow is another day had echoes of Gone with the Wind to me and that was before the reference was made in the story.
Marguerite Baptiste runs a highly successful internet dating service for the elite. Larry Wilson is a navy SEAL whose friends decided it would be fun to set a profile up on Marguerite’s website and set him up with someone nice. Their plan backfire’s slightly when Larry is being overrun with women who want him and he doesn’t have any interest in. Despite Marguerite’s best efforts with removing Larry from the site he is still being stalked. Between Larry’s friends and Marguerite a plan is hatched to solve the problem, but before it can happen Marguerite finds herself thrown back in time to 1870 and things are very different all except for Laurent Duvall. Laurent looks suspiciously like Larry and Marguerite takes off after him and invites herself to his home and into his life. Pitying her Laurent agrees and allows her to come to his plantation. Marguerite slowly gains access to more than just his home and theirs is a relationship that blossoms through time.
I really enjoyed this story and I felt that this was the one out of the whole anthology that had all the loose ends tied up at the end. Sandra Hill I think will be a new author for me to enjoy.
Drowning sea by Veronica Wolff
This was another new to me author and this story I think is my favourite. It had me crying in parts and I thought mid way through it was my least favourite of all.
Scotsman Iain MacNab is a peat boy and has noticed from afar the beauty of the lairds daughter, but he doesn’t know her name. While cutting the bog one day he hears a lady in distress and hurries to investigate knowing that the bog can suck a person down into its depths at a surprising speed. When he crests the hill he finds the lairds daughter caught in the bog. Like any decent man he recues her and brings her safely home. While carrying her home they agree to meet at the travelling stones the next day as they both feel a yearning for the other. They meet like this for a number of months and then the impossible happens events occur that tear them apart maybe forever. Cut to twenty years later and Iain is a sea captain and a notorious pirate.
I can say little more about this story without giving spoilers other than read it. I hope you won’t regret it!
Sixteen Decades by Trish Jensen
This story made me smile the whole way through. Our heroine, Miss Margaret has been thrown forward in time from 1870 to 2010 sixteen decades. Our hero is the town sheriff who on a missing persons call to the local brothel discovers a young woman has been hit over the head and trussed into the shed by someone called the sheriff.
The story revolves around Margaret getting to know the ways and the cultures of the 21st century and discovering that the role of women has greatly changed from her time.
I really enjoyed this story and Margaret is a character you can’t help but love and laugh along with.
All in all I thoroughly enjoyed my reading of Ladies Prefer Rouges and I would urge anyone who is a fan of time travel romance to dip into this anthology there is something for everyone in it.
Rating:4/5
Man from the Moon by Janet Chapman
This charming story is about Isobel, a doctor of veterinary medicine and what happens when a band of warriors from the future mistake her for an M.D. The men in this story have been sent back in time to save mankind from an event that will happen in the future and they are the only hope of success.
While on this mission one of their party is injured and is in urgent need of medical attention. This leads to a case of misunderstandings on the part of the Moon Man sent for help and her arrives back with Isobel who is their only hope.
As with all if Janet Chapman’s heroines, Isobel is a strong accomplished and self sufficient female who has bad choice in men. But during her time with the Moon men she finds herself believing their story and in turn falling for her patient, she vows to do anything she can to help them on their mission and try to keep her heart in tact; will she succeed in helping the future of mankind and finding her one true love? Or will she have to make the ultimate sacrifice?
I loved this story and it left me hoping that there will be more from the moon men at a future date.
Tomorrow is Another Day by Sandra Hill
Having never read anything by Sandra Hill before I was unsure what to expect but was excited at the prospect of a new to me author. Tomorrow is another day had echoes of Gone with the Wind to me and that was before the reference was made in the story.
Marguerite Baptiste runs a highly successful internet dating service for the elite. Larry Wilson is a navy SEAL whose friends decided it would be fun to set a profile up on Marguerite’s website and set him up with someone nice. Their plan backfire’s slightly when Larry is being overrun with women who want him and he doesn’t have any interest in. Despite Marguerite’s best efforts with removing Larry from the site he is still being stalked. Between Larry’s friends and Marguerite a plan is hatched to solve the problem, but before it can happen Marguerite finds herself thrown back in time to 1870 and things are very different all except for Laurent Duvall. Laurent looks suspiciously like Larry and Marguerite takes off after him and invites herself to his home and into his life. Pitying her Laurent agrees and allows her to come to his plantation. Marguerite slowly gains access to more than just his home and theirs is a relationship that blossoms through time.
I really enjoyed this story and I felt that this was the one out of the whole anthology that had all the loose ends tied up at the end. Sandra Hill I think will be a new author for me to enjoy.
Drowning sea by Veronica Wolff
This was another new to me author and this story I think is my favourite. It had me crying in parts and I thought mid way through it was my least favourite of all.
Scotsman Iain MacNab is a peat boy and has noticed from afar the beauty of the lairds daughter, but he doesn’t know her name. While cutting the bog one day he hears a lady in distress and hurries to investigate knowing that the bog can suck a person down into its depths at a surprising speed. When he crests the hill he finds the lairds daughter caught in the bog. Like any decent man he recues her and brings her safely home. While carrying her home they agree to meet at the travelling stones the next day as they both feel a yearning for the other. They meet like this for a number of months and then the impossible happens events occur that tear them apart maybe forever. Cut to twenty years later and Iain is a sea captain and a notorious pirate.
I can say little more about this story without giving spoilers other than read it. I hope you won’t regret it!
Sixteen Decades by Trish Jensen
This story made me smile the whole way through. Our heroine, Miss Margaret has been thrown forward in time from 1870 to 2010 sixteen decades. Our hero is the town sheriff who on a missing persons call to the local brothel discovers a young woman has been hit over the head and trussed into the shed by someone called the sheriff.
The story revolves around Margaret getting to know the ways and the cultures of the 21st century and discovering that the role of women has greatly changed from her time.
I really enjoyed this story and Margaret is a character you can’t help but love and laugh along with.
All in all I thoroughly enjoyed my reading of Ladies Prefer Rouges and I would urge anyone who is a fan of time travel romance to dip into this anthology there is something for everyone in it.
Rating:4/5
September 2, 2011
Janet Chapman's "Man from the Moon" - 3- stars. Decent isolated cabin romance setting. Interesting glimpse into futuristic moon man life based on the H's descriptions. Falling in love in five days felt totally ridiculous.
Sandra Hill's "Tomorrow is Another Day" - 2 stars. Kinda meh overall. Not a fan of the "Gone with the Wind" allusions. Didn't find either the H or h particularly appealing. Also, choppy writing that I didn't enjoy reading.
Veronica Wolff's "The Drowning Sea" - 3.5-4 stars. Very sweet romance set in 1600s Scotland. Liked the use of time travel to right past wrongs and rediscover true love that the H had thought lost forever. This one felt more full-bodied and believable (in terms of finding love in 80-90 pages) than the others. Told almost entirely from the H's POV. This one is worth reading, and it could have been developed into a full book, in my opinion.
Trish Jensen's "Sixteen Decades" - 3 stars. Cute and fantastical with an endearing heroine from the mid-1800s who finds herself in modern day Nevada. Pretty feel good, but the ending was a little abrupt.
Overall verdict: Decent time travel anthology, but I'm happy I only borrowed it from the library.
Sandra Hill's "Tomorrow is Another Day" - 2 stars. Kinda meh overall. Not a fan of the "Gone with the Wind" allusions. Didn't find either the H or h particularly appealing. Also, choppy writing that I didn't enjoy reading.
Veronica Wolff's "The Drowning Sea" - 3.5-4 stars. Very sweet romance set in 1600s Scotland. Liked the use of time travel to right past wrongs and rediscover true love that the H had thought lost forever. This one felt more full-bodied and believable (in terms of finding love in 80-90 pages) than the others. Told almost entirely from the H's POV. This one is worth reading, and it could have been developed into a full book, in my opinion.
Trish Jensen's "Sixteen Decades" - 3 stars. Cute and fantastical with an endearing heroine from the mid-1800s who finds herself in modern day Nevada. Pretty feel good, but the ending was a little abrupt.
Overall verdict: Decent time travel anthology, but I'm happy I only borrowed it from the library.
September 1, 2012
Man from the Moon by Janet Chapman.....2.5. Cheesy and an ending that would p*ss me off had I been the heroine.
Tomorrow is Another Day by Sandra Hill...DNF. I didn't care for the overdone Cajun accents.
The Drowning Sea by Veronica Wolff. 3 stars for the writing, 1 star for the story.
Sixteen Decades by Trish Jensen....1 star for the story. I thought it was ridiculous, even for a time travel.
Tomorrow is Another Day by Sandra Hill...DNF. I didn't care for the overdone Cajun accents.
The Drowning Sea by Veronica Wolff. 3 stars for the writing, 1 star for the story.
Sixteen Decades by Trish Jensen....1 star for the story. I thought it was ridiculous, even for a time travel.
June 24, 2013
A friend gave me this book and I've only read the novella by Janet Chapman (so far) but I was very disappointed in Daniel's behavior. He acted the way a lot of 'heroes' in 'romance' novels act; they act interested in the woman but they mistreat her and then just say one little sentence: "I'm sorry I hurt you" and that's supposed to make everything ok. He shouldn't have humiliated her just because 'he could'.
When a man hurts a woman in a novel, it doesn't feel like a romance novel. I read romantic fiction because I like reading love stories.
Women shouldn't be disrespected, either in fiction or in reality.
This is the first book I've read, written by Janet Chapman. I hope her other novels are written like true love stories, otherwise I won't buy them. I only purchase romantic fiction where the hero treats the woman with dignity and respect.
When a man hurts a woman in a novel, it doesn't feel like a romance novel. I read romantic fiction because I like reading love stories.
Women shouldn't be disrespected, either in fiction or in reality.
This is the first book I've read, written by Janet Chapman. I hope her other novels are written like true love stories, otherwise I won't buy them. I only purchase romantic fiction where the hero treats the woman with dignity and respect.
April 15, 2019
I think if I had to pick a favorite out of the four stories in this collection, it would probably be "Tomorrow Is Another Day". Despite the fact that I usually avoid books set in the American South during the Civil War era, I enjoyed reading about a 21st-century woman putting her business savvy to work in the 1800s. The third story, "The Drowning Sea", was my least favorite because it was more of a pirate action story than a romance, in my opinion. Overall, this collection falls into the "cruise ship" category for me -- if you are vacationing in an isolated place such as a cruise ship or a mountain cabin and this book is on the shelves, it will keep you mildly entertained while you wait for dinner but I wouldn't go to an extra effort to seek it out.
October 31, 2011
Janet chapman - 2 stars - This was really cheesy and read like an erotic novel with no sex at all. weird futuristic mooneans. Pshht! I love Janet chapman, but this story was just BAD!!
Sandra Hill - 3 stars - This one bugged me because there was no real point. A girl wakes up in her fallen elevator and find herself in the past. She sees a man she believes looks like the man she was just talking to in her office in the future. He says he is someone else and has no idea what she's talking about. He later has some dreams of this mans life, but thats all. Good love scenes, but sucky story.
Sandra Hill - 3 stars - This one bugged me because there was no real point. A girl wakes up in her fallen elevator and find herself in the past. She sees a man she believes looks like the man she was just talking to in her office in the future. He says he is someone else and has no idea what she's talking about. He later has some dreams of this mans life, but thats all. Good love scenes, but sucky story.
December 23, 2013
This was a nice anthology. I definitely liked Janet Chapman's "Man from the Moon" best. It had more of an edge to it than her usual work and definitely kept me in suspense. Sandra Hill's "Tomorrow is Another Day" was very much in keeping with her time-traveling Vikings. Veronica Wolff's "The Drowning Sea" was more solemn, though it had a HEA. I thought Trish Jensen's "Sixteen Decades" was fine, but I just couldn't connect with the characters enough to really get into it. That's just me. All in all, this book was certainly worth reading.
August 30, 2010
I cannot say having one of my favorite authors - Janet Chapman - writing about men from the moon instead of hunky highlanders made me happy. The story was quirky and enjoyable but I prefer her to write about Scottish men - what she does best!
Sandra Hill - funny as always
Veronica Wolff and Trisha Jensen - both equally as good.
Gave the book an overall 3 - cannot say I "loved" the book but it was certainly passable.
Sandra Hill - funny as always
Veronica Wolff and Trisha Jensen - both equally as good.
Gave the book an overall 3 - cannot say I "loved" the book but it was certainly passable.
June 3, 2010
The stories were interesting but just too short. All four stories had some sort of Time travel in them but they ended abruptly imho. I did enjoy the stories though. I think my favorite was TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY by Sandra Hill. She writes with a wonderful sense of humor and great heores!
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