Time and Time Again
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Author of Circuit of Heaven and End of Days
Some dream the unimaginable. Others dare to live it…
When love begins to border on objection.
Marion Mead is researching her new novel when the wealthy and mysterious Raymond Lord invites her to his restored plantation in rural Virginia. Marion's book is based on a true story about an 18th-century woman who deserted her husband to run off with a charming yet murderous thief, and Raymond possesses a journal written by the heroine's great-granddaughter. But when Marion arrives at Greenville plantation, she is thunderstruck by her sudden attraction to her host. Not since her husband's tragic death four years before has she felt such passion; Raymond is the most beautiful man she has ever met, and he fully returns her ardor. She knows instantly that they will...they must...become lovers....
But, as they collaborate on her novel, an unquiet chill stirs in her heart. Events that happened centuries ago begin to echo in Marion's own life, and her lover is suddenly a stranger. “I would know you anywhere, anytime,” he whispers to her darkly. “I am not who you think I am,” he warns. Haunting threads of the past seem to be weaving their way into the present...and Marion must try desperately to alter fate before she loses her love...or her very life.
“Danvers is a polished writer…. Time and Time Again is a love story…[that] says volumes about the power of love and the limits of imagination.”—Teresa Ducato, Booklist
“Dennis Danvers is fast becoming one of the great suspense writers of today….If you enjoyed Ghost, you will delight in this fast-paced tale.” —Harriet Klausner, The Talisman
“Ingenious…original…I was reminded of Laura, Rebecca, and Wuthering Heights….” —Tom De Haven, author of Funny Papers
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The premise of Danvers's second novel (after Wilderness)-lovers united and reunited through the centuries-has potential, but unsympathetic characters and a sluggish narration fail to ignite proper suspense or romance. Raymond Lord, who lives on a restored Virginia plantation, is or perhaps isn't the 1990s reincarnation of both Anthony Richards, 18th-century seducer and murderer of Susanna Grier, and Frank Strickland, who in the 19th century drove Susanna's great granddaughter, Pearl, to suicide. Marion Mead, who narrates, is an aspiring writer just beginning a novel about Susanna. When Raymond offers to show her Pearl's journal, Marion goes off for a weekend on the plantation and finds herself falling for ``the most beautiful man I'd ever seen.'' Even her increasing uneasiness about the reclusive and moody Raymond doesn't stop the love-struck but absurdly naive woman from taking her two young stepdaughters along for another gothically romantic weekend (Could Marion be Susanna? Does Raymond intend to murder them all?). Fans of historical romance may find the interwoven adventures of Susanna, Pearl and Marion diverting, but those hoping for spine-chilling suspense won't find it here.
