A Twist of Fate
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4.6 • 52 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Three years ago, Rosalind Courtenay stumbled from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, where she has been trapped ever since, leaving her husband and infant son behind. Now she’s found her way back.
The problem, of course, is how to explain her absence to her husband. Does he think she abandoned him? Has he remarried? Is he happy in a new life? Rosalind decides to don a disguise in hopes of answering her questions before showing up on his doorstep. Instead, a twist of fate has her mistaken for her young son’s new governess.
Rosalind has every intention of revealing herself as soon as August returns home from business. Until then, she’ll get to know her son, a quiet child who has inexplicably been abandoned by an endless stream of governesses. That’s when the hauntings begin. Rosalind has finally come home and something—or someone—doesn’t just want her gone. They want her dead.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Armstrong's erratic sequel to A Stitch in Time surprisingly subverts both gothic and time-travel romance tropes, but an inconsistent protagonist and contrived plotting undermine the story. When baker-turned-nobleman's wife Rosalind Courtenay sneaks into neighboring Thorne Manor to retrieve her forgotten wedding band, she's transported from 19th-century to 21st-century Yorkshire. She remains trapped away from her beloved if often jealous husband, August, and their infant son for four years, until a sighting of their time-traveling neighbor, William Thorne, leads Rosalind to find a way to return. She arrives home only to discover that August is convinced she deserted him and her son believers her to have drowned. Rosalind disguises herself as his governess to rebuild their relationship and stumbles into both a tangle of family secrets and a ghost warning her away. To save her family, she must overcome her fears. Rushes of backstory, manufactured obstacles, and overly summarized action undercut the gentle romance. Plucky Rosalind's ultramodern mindset, attitudes, and skills, meanwhile, are difficult to believe in a displaced Victorian, and the lack of psychological realism undermines the novel's tension. Despite a satisfying climax, loose ends leach the joy from this gothic, making it one to skip for all but diehard fans of the first installment.
Customer Reviews
Engaging, beautiful, lovely
Kelley has away to keep you engaged from the first chapter to the very end. She has the ability to paint a picture that makes it easy for you to know where you are (in time) and fall in love with each character. A Twist of Fate is a perfect title for a novel that keeps twisting again and again right when you thing the “happily ever after” is in reach. The twists will literally make you gasp out loud, as I did on a plane, and not want to put it down. With every book Kelley writes, once you finish it you want to start it again. Kelley does an amazing job joining A Stitch in Time with a Twist of Fate together but also making them so different, you fall in love with both strong, beautiful and independent woman characters that you need to know for what is next to for both Rosalind and Bronwyn. Thank you for this amazingly, beautiful, engaging novel. Can’t wait for the next one!
Mystery, adventure, romance, and ghosts, I devoured every page.
TWIST OF FATE opens wheeling reader and protagonist through time and straight into adventure. I will truly miss all of the endearing characters, and I can’t wait for the next book in this exciting series, A TURN OF THE TIDE.
Rosalind Courtenay is a courageous, intelligent, and quite witty, protagonist; chasing her past, determined to make it her present and her future. No matter the twists and turns hurled at every step of her way, she will not accept giving up and I was with her for each and every one of those steps.
At the brink of success, fate snatches away her chance time and again, dangling the life she yearns to regain before her. Do not underestimate the resolve of a woman trying to save her family. Stopping at nothing — not even time.
Mystery, romance, sharp humour, cinematic settings, and ghosts. I kept on the edge of my seat, turning pages until I hit the backcover, completely unprepared to leave this world.
I can’t wait for the third book in A STITCH IN TIME series, A TURN OF THE TIDE.
Thank you, Kelley Armstrong, for all the hours of escape and entertainment.
A Twist of Fate
Kelley Armstrong once again writes an enchanting story that seamlessly moves from the present to the past. A Twist of Fate has it all! Suspense, romance and an amazing character development that allows the reader to fall in love with the characters. A must read if you enjoyed the first book in the series.