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Nick of Time
London, 1997. Detective Nick DaCosta had lost nearly everything. His partner had been in a coma for almost a month. His badge was taken away. It seemed the only thing left was an old photo kept in his wallet, a picture of a paradise he's never seen. So when Nick's car goes crashing into cemetery gates during a storm, he fears he's also about to lose his life... The Dover Coast, 1810. When Nick wakes, he finds himself in the body of a Regency dandy who was thrown from a horse, not a car. And his battered body now belongs to another man--Godfrey Woodbaine. Godfrey's wife, Anna despises him so much she is tempted to let him die. But as Nick recovers, she finds he is not the horrible man she remembered. In fact, she could almost fall in love...and Nick is equally enthralled. Perhaps it is finally his time--to see paradise...
294 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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August 12, 2016
Wonderful time-travel romance! I loved it!
August 9, 2018
Police officer Nick DaCosta goes back in time into the body of a cruel dandy in 1810 and falls in love with his abused wife (who wants nothing to do with him).
This is a re-read of a romance from years ago. I'm giving it four stars because I barely read romance anymore and yet I actually re-read this entire book. Typically, time travel romance involved a woman being sent back in time. The switch-up of a man going back was different. The man he inhabits beat and abused his wife and then disappeared. Watching Anna very gradually realize that her 'husband' is not the same, and that she might trust him, and even come to care for him, was well done and sweet.
This is a re-read of a romance from years ago. I'm giving it four stars because I barely read romance anymore and yet I actually re-read this entire book. Typically, time travel romance involved a woman being sent back in time. The switch-up of a man going back was different. The man he inhabits beat and abused his wife and then disappeared. Watching Anna very gradually realize that her 'husband' is not the same, and that she might trust him, and even come to care for him, was well done and sweet.
June 23, 2015
SPOILER: How many people caught the "Easter egg" in the latter part of the book, when Nick goes to London after Waterloo to try to recoup her (can't remember her name!) fortune. Pay careful attention, and you can find an amazing conversation with Georgette Heyer's hero from A Civil Contract!
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