Time-Slip Romance
These romance novels break the boundaries of time and space, reaching across multiple time periods.
Come again : a novel
Webb, Robert, 1972- author
2020
Falling apart after her husband dies suddenly, Kate reawakens as her eighteen-year-old self on the day she first met her husband and embarks on a second chance to re-experience their love and save his life.
Hazards of time travel
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author
2018
A recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America - Wainscotia, Wisconsin - that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of rehabilitation - but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating.
The house on the strand
Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989, author.
2000
In this haunting tale, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch: if you happen to touch anyone while traveling in the past you will be thrust instantaneously to the present.
Lady of Hay
Erskine, Barbara
2000
Jo Clifford is a successful journalist, very much in control of her life and glossy media world in which she moves. She is involved in writing a series involving regression and is herself put under hypnosis. Her life changes: she finds herself reliving the experiences of Mathilda, Lady of Hay, the wife of a baron at the time of King John. Past and present become hopelessly entwined as her current lovers try to manipulate the past.
The little shop of found things
Brackston, Paula, author
2018
"Xanthe and her mother Flora leave London behind for a fresh start, taking over an antique shop in the historic town of Marlborough. Xanthe has always had an affinity with some of the antiques she finds. When she touches them, she can sense something of the past they come from and the stories they hold. So when she has an intense connection to a beautiful silver chatelaine she has to know more. It's while she's examining the chatelaine that she's transported back to the seventeenth century. And shortly after, she's confronted by a ghost who reveals that this is where the antique has its origins"-- Provided by publisher.
A murder in time : a novel
McElwain, Julie, author
2016
When brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and finds herself in a 19th century English castle under threat from a vicious serial killer, she scrambles to solve the case before it takes her life—200 years before she was even born. While fleeing from an unexpected assassin, Kendra escapes into a stairwell that promises sanctuary but when she stumbles out again, she is in the same place - Aldrich Castle - but in a different time: 1815, to be exact. Mistaken for a lady's maid hired to help with weekend guests, Kendra is forced to quickly adapt to the time period until she can figure out how she got there; and, more importantly, how to get back home.
One last stop : a novel
McQuiston, Casey.
2021
"Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn't believe in much. She doesn't believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. And she certainly doesn't believe her ragtag band of new roommates, her night shifts at a 24-hour pancake diner, or her daily subway commute full of electrical outages are going to change that. But then, there's Jane. Beautiful, impossible Jane. All hard edges with a soft smile and swoopy hair and saving August's day when she needed it most. The person August looks forward to seeing on the train every day. The one who makes her forget about the cities she lived in that never seemed to fit, and her fear of what happens when she finally graduates, and even her cold-case obsessed mother who won't quite let her go. And when August realizes her subway crush is impossible in more ways than one-namely, displaced in time from the 1970s-she thinks maybe it's time to start believing."-- Provided by publisher.
To say nothing of the dog, or, How we found the bishop's bird stump at last
Willis, Connie, author
2016
What the wind knows
Harmon, Amy, author
2019
Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather's stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time. The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous place in which to awaken. But there Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, and under the care of Dr. Thomas Smith, guardian to a young boy who is oddly familiar. Mistaken for the boy's long-missing mother, Anne adopts her identity, convinced the woman's disappearance is connected to her own. As tensions rise, Thomas joins the struggle for Ireland's independence and Anne is drawn into the conflict beside him. Caught between history and her heart, she must decide whether she's willing to let go of the life she knew for a love she never thought she'd find. But in the end, is the choice actually hers to make?