An Echo in Time

Time Travel #2

by Sherry Lewis

Sheriff and single mother Taylor O’Brien has enough worries as it is, what with spearheading a campaign for her re-election, keeping the peace in her Montana mountain town, and raising her ten-year-old son. The last thing she needs now is a complicated romance…

Then into Taylor’s life wanders Sam Evans, a ruggedly handsome cowboy who looks like he just stepped out of the late 1800s. As if his clothes aren’t strange enough, Sam has never tasted a French fry, jumps at the jingle of a phone, and has never seen a woman in pants, let alone a lady-sheriff. The fact is, he did just step out of the nineteenth century—through a time-travel change. By traveling through time, Sam had hoped to forget his woman troubles for a while.

But it was over a hundred years ago that he swore off women—and time has a way of changing one’s mind.

If you want more of Sam’s story, you can meet him in Whispers Through Time.

Genres: Time Travel, Romance

341 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2001

About the author

Sherry Lewis is an award-winning, national bestselling author who writes across several genres. Along with her writing career, she has been teaching writing workshops for more than 20 years through Dancing on Coals Workshops for Fiction Writers.

In 1993 Sherry launched her mystery-writing career with the sale of her first three books in the Fred Vickery mystery series to Berkley Prime Crime. In early 1994 she sold her first romance to Harlequin Superromance, launching her career as a romance writer.

As Sammi Carter, she wrote the Candy Shop mystery series set in Paradise, Colorado and featuring Abby Shaw. As Jacklyn Brady she wrote the Piece of Cake mystery series set in New Orleans, featuring cake artist Rita Lucero.

Originally from Montana, Sherry spent several years living at the base of Utah's Wasatch Mountains. She now lives a block from the beach along Florida's Emerald Coast. It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.

Reviews

[JoAnn M · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don’t think I’ve read a time-travel romance before, and this was pretty cute. Sam Evans comes forward from 1880 and lands in the life of Sherriff Taylor O’Brien. Her son and her dad immediately take to Sam, but it takes a bit for Taylor to believe his tale. Taylor’s up for re-election, and Sam’s presence, of course, leads to complications. A fun little story.

[Trin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Romance in which a 19th century cowboy travels forward in time to find true love with a 21st century female sheriff. This wasn’t awful; it was mostly just bland. I got the most enjoyment out of the opening, when Sam’s terribly confused by everything modern and Taylor thinks he’s insane; as usual, once they start to fall in love, I got bored. The problem with a lot of one-shot romance novels, I guess, is that I’m just not invested enough: the characters have to be pretty damn dynamic for me to care about them gazing dopily at each other for 250 pages, especially if there’s nothing that exciting about the external tension. Here, Taylor’s trying to get reelected sheriff, but since she didn’t seem to care all that much about winning (that’s actually a plot point—that she doesn’t care about winning as long as she has Sam, which, while possibly healthy, really rubbed me the wrong way), neither did I. So, I read this for the time travel LOLs, but once those were over, there was just nothing here to keep me involved.

[Linda (NOT RECEIVING NOTIFICATIONS) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love time travel books and this was a little unusual because the man jumped to the present time instead of the woman moving to the past.

Sam Evans, a cowboy from 1800's Colorado took the place of his friend Kurt when time was ready to transport him to the future. Definitely out of place, Sam ends up in jail when a deputy frisks him and Sam hits him. There he meets Taylor, the sheriff.

A slow relationship slowly emerges even though Sam knows how he feels about her almost from the start. Taylor, a single mother who never married the father of her son is running for reelection. Worried about scandal and saying the wrong thing, she learns what is important in life from Sam. Kind and thoughtful, he thought of her as the "other half of his heart, the other side of his soul".

Again, that last 25 pages of the book, where everything is a little rushed to make all the ends tidy, was the reason for 4 stars.

[Gemma · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed watching the 1800s hero adjust to our time.

[Dee · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a time-travel book a bit different from many other time travels from the fact that Sam, the traveler, knew from the start that he was traveling forward into another century.

[Vickie Baugher dodson]

Loved this book. Had to read the sequel immediately.