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This Time Forever
Insurrectionist Meggie Billbride had a premonition something would go wrong when she planted the bomb at the mining company offices. Still, the hot-tempered revolutionary refused to back out of her mission . . . and when the dynamite exploded she was certain she was sailing toward the pearly gates. Instead, she discovered she was in a flying machine of the future and seated next to the most handsome mortal she'd ever seen! And as Meggie met his kind emerald gaze and sought his confidence and comfort, the disoriented beauty's terror of her predicament was soon replaced by flaming hot passion!
Fantastically rich Thomas Carter was about to complain about his first-class privacy being disturbed, but when he saw the oddly-dressed goddess beside him, his outrage turned into curiosity. Her slight Irish accent, her quaint hairstyle, and her fresh bright attitude intrigued him much more than all the modern worldly women who had been his usual female fare. The worldy tycoon wasn't satisfied with imagining what lay beneath the high-necked dress. He swore to pursue her relentlessly until he had won her, for now and for always!
Fantastically rich Thomas Carter was about to complain about his first-class privacy being disturbed, but when he saw the oddly-dressed goddess beside him, his outrage turned into curiosity. Her slight Irish accent, her quaint hairstyle, and her fresh bright attitude intrigued him much more than all the modern worldly women who had been his usual female fare. The worldy tycoon wasn't satisfied with imagining what lay beneath the high-necked dress. He swore to pursue her relentlessly until he had won her, for now and for always!
444 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
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About the author
Constance O'Day-Flannery
25 books126 followersConstance O'Day-Flannery is a best-selling American author of romance novels.
Constance O'Day-Flannery has never taken a writing course or attended college. She began writing in 1986 when her son entered school. While reading romance novels during her recovery from a hysterectomy, O'Day-Flannery began to think about the type of book she would want to read. She finished her manuscript 18 months later and sold it quickly. Since then, she has published over twenty novels, all of which have appeared on a national best-seller list. Many of her novels are paranormal or time-travel romances. She has been awarded the Romantic Times BookClub Award for Best Time Travel for Timeswept Lovers and the Romantic Times BookClub Award for Best Contemporary Fantasy Romance, Second Chances.
In 2001, O'Day-Flannery took a hiatus from writing. She spent three years living in Ireland before returning to the United States and continuing her writing career.
O'Day-Flannery currently lives in Pennsylvania. She has two children.
Constance O'Day-Flannery has never taken a writing course or attended college. She began writing in 1986 when her son entered school. While reading romance novels during her recovery from a hysterectomy, O'Day-Flannery began to think about the type of book she would want to read. She finished her manuscript 18 months later and sold it quickly. Since then, she has published over twenty novels, all of which have appeared on a national best-seller list. Many of her novels are paranormal or time-travel romances. She has been awarded the Romantic Times BookClub Award for Best Time Travel for Timeswept Lovers and the Romantic Times BookClub Award for Best Contemporary Fantasy Romance, Second Chances.
In 2001, O'Day-Flannery took a hiatus from writing. She spent three years living in Ireland before returning to the United States and continuing her writing career.
O'Day-Flannery currently lives in Pennsylvania. She has two children.
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August 23, 2019
The first word that comes to mind when I think of this book is “brooding”. The writing is rather dark and flowery, which is not to my taste. I know that styles in romance novels have changed over the years. I wasn’t much of a romance reader in the 1990s but I suspect this book was popular during that era.
May 11, 2021
I loved this book!!
April 11, 2023
3.75 ⭐
January 16, 2023
Knowing that she'll never escape the small mining she was born and raised in, the heroine feels completely trapped and without hope. Surrounded by horrible memories and people who look down upon her-judge her and find her lacking, she wants to explore the world before she's sent to hell for her sins. In the town where men slave underground for 10 or more hours a day and day young due to coal inhalation, she's called upon her brother to aid him and his group in bombing the records department of the business so to wipe clear the debts of all the people of the town. In the process of trying to plant the bomb, dressed as a nun, the charge goes off early and the heroine is sucked into blackness. She wakes up in a strange aircraft on the way to heaven-she believes, and in the presence of her guardian angel. The hero, a wealthy new York business man who's disenchanted with life and lonely, finds the nun who just suddenly appeared next to him to be a healthy mix of burden and life saver. Her complete innocent and doe in the headlight eyes make him want to protect her-and if he's being honest, kiss her as well but he feels enough guilt over lusting for a nun to stop himself. When she turns up at his apartment wounded, he takes her in. Then truly bizarre things start happening. He has a dream that he's in historical Pennsylvania, fighting her brother in a bar and going to work in the mines. He wakes up to the startling revelation that not only did the heroine share his dream but in fact it wasn't a dream at all. She's come forward from the past and somehow, someway, she begins to take him back to the past. Only in short bursts, just enough for him to understand the hardship of the life for the people of her town and to feel righteous anger with the fat cats who willingly allow these people to suffer. He befriends her brother and involves himself in the campaign to bring the mistreat of the workers to the public. The heroine finds herself invisible during their trips back to her time and it pains her to see the grief and torment in her brothers eyes over her death. The heroine and hero sleep together. The hero professing his love for the heroine and she in turn does the same-but not before telling him she's not a nun. She came clean finally because she never wanted to keep up the life but didn't want to hurt the hero either. And she wanted him to know that she'll always be honest with him going forward. But her confession drives them apart. He's hurt by what he considers her betrayal and feels the trust is gone, especially once he learns that she birthed a child in her young only to have the enfant stillborn. During the tense and awkward afterward, the heroine finds out she's pregnant. Remembering the heart ache the last time she brought the news to the man she loved, she instead gets a job cleaning houses. The hero desperately searches for her and once he finds her, he begs her forgiveness and pleads with her return. But life isn't that simple and circumstances draw them back to the past and tragedy strikes, leaving the hero to find a way to survive with the grief.
I almost for thought this book would end with the heroine being truly dead and it unleashed a fierce anger within me. But luckily it does right itself and the end-mind you pretty much the last page. The passion, the heartache and the drama of this book drew me in and held me tight within it's coils from start to finish. I thought the time travel aspect was unique and refreshing. It was so much more than just a heroine travels to the future, 'whatever will she do?' novel. This story and these characters had true heart and each suffered but gained understanding within themselves because of it. I'll start with the heroine. So damn innocent and mousy and completely dependent on the hero for survival for most of the book, when it was time for her to fend for herself she did strike out on her own and was determined to survive. I admired her greatly. She was so kind-too kind in most things which is why she had such trouble when she was separated from the hero. But she was passionate about her family, protective of anyone who thought to disrespect her brother of the hero in her presence. The hero was so lost from the second he laid eyes on her. She had him completely under her spell but she didn't even know it. Sure he could be a bit of a jerk sometimes and totally overreacted to the new she wasn't a nun or a virgin but when she left him, he realized what he had lost and his love for her shined brightly through the pages. This book had the whole package. It made me laugh (when the hero is drunk and stumbling down the street on the arm of an invisible woman). It made me cry (when the heroine lays dead on the sheet and the hero cries out his anguish). And it made me feel all warm inside watching their love bud and then blossom. Awesome book.
I almost for thought this book would end with the heroine being truly dead and it unleashed a fierce anger within me. But luckily it does right itself and the end-mind you pretty much the last page. The passion, the heartache and the drama of this book drew me in and held me tight within it's coils from start to finish. I thought the time travel aspect was unique and refreshing. It was so much more than just a heroine travels to the future, 'whatever will she do?' novel. This story and these characters had true heart and each suffered but gained understanding within themselves because of it. I'll start with the heroine. So damn innocent and mousy and completely dependent on the hero for survival for most of the book, when it was time for her to fend for herself she did strike out on her own and was determined to survive. I admired her greatly. She was so kind-too kind in most things which is why she had such trouble when she was separated from the hero. But she was passionate about her family, protective of anyone who thought to disrespect her brother of the hero in her presence. The hero was so lost from the second he laid eyes on her. She had him completely under her spell but she didn't even know it. Sure he could be a bit of a jerk sometimes and totally overreacted to the new she wasn't a nun or a virgin but when she left him, he realized what he had lost and his love for her shined brightly through the pages. This book had the whole package. It made me laugh (when the hero is drunk and stumbling down the street on the arm of an invisible woman). It made me cry (when the heroine lays dead on the sheet and the hero cries out his anguish). And it made me feel all warm inside watching their love bud and then blossom. Awesome book.
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August 14, 2008
THIS TIME, FOREVER - G
O'Day-Flannery, Constance - standalone
Insurrectionist Meggie Billbride had a premonition something would go wrong when she planted the bomb at the mining company offices. Still, the hot-tempered revolutionary refused to back out of her mission . . . and when the dynamite exploded she was certain she was sailing toward the pearly gates. Instead, she discovered she was in a flying machine of the future and seated next to the most handsome mortal she'd ever seen! And as Meggie met his kind emerald gaze and sought his confidence and comfort, the disoriented beauty's terror of her predicament was soon replaced by flaming hot passion!
Fantastically rich Thomas Carter was about to complain about his first-class privacy being disturbed, but when he saw the oddly-dressed goddess beside him, his outrage turned into curiosity. Her slight Irish accent, her quaint hairstyle, and her fresh bright attitude intrigued him much more than all the modern worldly women who had been his usual female fare. The worldy tycoon wasn't satisfied with imagining what lay beneath the high-necked dress. He swore to pursue her relentlessly until he had won her, for now and for always!
Certainly not the best time-travel book I've read, but it was okay.
O'Day-Flannery, Constance - standalone
Insurrectionist Meggie Billbride had a premonition something would go wrong when she planted the bomb at the mining company offices. Still, the hot-tempered revolutionary refused to back out of her mission . . . and when the dynamite exploded she was certain she was sailing toward the pearly gates. Instead, she discovered she was in a flying machine of the future and seated next to the most handsome mortal she'd ever seen! And as Meggie met his kind emerald gaze and sought his confidence and comfort, the disoriented beauty's terror of her predicament was soon replaced by flaming hot passion!
Fantastically rich Thomas Carter was about to complain about his first-class privacy being disturbed, but when he saw the oddly-dressed goddess beside him, his outrage turned into curiosity. Her slight Irish accent, her quaint hairstyle, and her fresh bright attitude intrigued him much more than all the modern worldly women who had been his usual female fare. The worldy tycoon wasn't satisfied with imagining what lay beneath the high-necked dress. He swore to pursue her relentlessly until he had won her, for now and for always!
Certainly not the best time-travel book I've read, but it was okay.
September 22, 2012
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December 22, 2014
Another time travel romance, courtesy of my mom's shelves. Even my teen self found this one hokey.
December 9, 2019
This book is hilariously bat-shit crazy. I read it for an "Old-School-Crazy-Sauce" themed romance book club and basically won the night for weirdest plot.
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