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Wanted Across Time
Transported back in time to the days of the Old West, Annie Dillon is targeted by a sexy bounty hunter who has mistaken her for the outlaw "Rotten Rosie," who is actually her great-great grandmother. Original.
384 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1997
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Eugenia Riley
78 books100 followersEugenia Riley is the award-winning, bestselling author of dozens of historical, contemporary and time-travel romances, including A TRYST IN TIME, TEMPEST IN TIME, and TIMESWEPT BRIDE. She is a #1 Bestselling Author of Time Travel Romance at Amazon and Kindle. She has written for publishers including Avon, Bantam, Warner, Harlequin and Dorchester.
Eugenia is delighted to announce the launching of Eugenia Riley Classics, a new imprint featuring all of your favorite Eugenia Riley historical, contemporary, and time-travel romances, finally available again in Kindle, NOOK, Kobo and at iBooks! Eugenia's currently available e-book list includes: WANTED ACROSS TIME; BUSHWHACKED BRIDE; BUSHWHACKED GROOM; PHANTOM IN TIME; EMBERS OF TIME; A CHRISTMAS IN TIME; LOVERS AND OTHER LUNATICS; TIMESWEPT BRIDE; TIMESWEPT BABY; THE PHANTOM OF THE BATHTUB ; TEMPEST IN TIME; and TWO HEARTS IN TIME.
Eugenia's latest release, WANTED ACROSS TIME, is an April 2013 release in Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, and at iBooks. WANTED ACROSS TIME is a wild and sexy romp back in time to the Wild West, in the tradition of BUSHWHACKED BRIDE and BUSHWHACKED GROOM.
Eugenia is especially acclaimed for her nine time travel romance novels. Her first two, A TRYST IN TIME and TEMPEST IN TIME, were Waldenbooks romance bestsellers in mass-market paperback; both titles sold out of print three times. Three of her time-travels placed on the Ingram's romance list; and EMBERS OF TIME was a top ten bestseller in time-travel at Borders. Eight of Eugenia's time-travels have earned 5 star ratings or better at Heartland Critiques, and all have won numerous high ratings and rave reviews in publications such as Romantic Times, Rendezvous, and The Literary Times. Reviewer Harriet Klausner calls Eugenia "the empress of time-travel romance." She has received thousands of fan letters on her novels, from locations all over the world.
Eugenia is the winner of the HOLT Medallion for WALTZ IN TIME. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas, a former English teacher and editor of TOUCHSTONE Literary Quarterly. She lives in Texas with her husband; they have two grown daughters and two grandchildren.
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July 14, 2024
⭐ 4 "OUTLAW & OUT OF TIME" STARS ⭐
Sam and Annie make a great couple! I loved how the author build up their relationship. Outside of their romance we were also treated with very interesting side plots like Annie's outlaw great-great-grandmother Rosie, Sam's Cheyenne medicine woman grandmother and her tribe and some other instances where we find out maybe Sam & Annie's destinies were linked from the start.
I do wish the author would've been more clear about the timeline and how much time has passed. Also felt like towards the end, to resolve the story, the author rushed things a bit and some loose ends were tied too quickly.
Sam and Annie make a great couple! I loved how the author build up their relationship. Outside of their romance we were also treated with very interesting side plots like Annie's outlaw great-great-grandmother Rosie, Sam's Cheyenne medicine woman grandmother and her tribe and some other instances where we find out maybe Sam & Annie's destinies were linked from the start.
I do wish the author would've been more clear about the timeline and how much time has passed. Also felt like towards the end, to resolve the story, the author rushed things a bit and some loose ends were tied too quickly.
October 6, 2017
WOW! What a Story!
I had a bit of trouble really getting into this tall tale, but the more I read, the more interested I became. My flighty mind kept going off in all sorts of directions, trying to figure out how to help our main characters. Talk about becoming totally ingrossed in a book! There are some really spicy scenes in the book, but if you feel the need to get past those areas, you will certainly enjoy this book, in my opinion.
I had a bit of trouble really getting into this tall tale, but the more I read, the more interested I became. My flighty mind kept going off in all sorts of directions, trying to figure out how to help our main characters. Talk about becoming totally ingrossed in a book! There are some really spicy scenes in the book, but if you feel the need to get past those areas, you will certainly enjoy this book, in my opinion.
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March 27, 2023Travel to the real Old West in an instant . The heroine is snatched up from a dilapidated ghost town in the middle of a Texas desert, circa 1990, accosted by a bounty hunter and whisked back in time to the late 1890s where the inevitable happens!
Cowboys and Indians, bad hombres, action deluxe.
A very interesting tale with many twists and turns, danger, romance the inevitable happy ending.
Some history thrown in that keeps you reading. I will follow this author.
Cowboys and Indians, bad hombres, action deluxe.
A very interesting tale with many twists and turns, danger, romance the inevitable happy ending.
Some history thrown in that keeps you reading. I will follow this author.
July 15, 2017
I love time travel and this book did not disappoint. Annie is my strong woman who is having problems with her restoration plans. A whirlwind attacks her and a man appears. He has a wanted poster with her picture on it and the adventures begin. This story is different from any other time travel novels that I have read and kept me wondering what would be next.
July 13, 2018
Loved It 5+*
This adventurous, entertaining, and interesting tale of two people and how their lives are intertwined through time along with their family. Never a dull moment with Bounty Hunter Sam and Time Traveler Annie taking on the job of saving Annie's Great, Great Grandmother. What a fun and delightful read.
This adventurous, entertaining, and interesting tale of two people and how their lives are intertwined through time along with their family. Never a dull moment with Bounty Hunter Sam and Time Traveler Annie taking on the job of saving Annie's Great, Great Grandmother. What a fun and delightful read.
July 9, 2024
The pacing turned dismal about halfway through. Annie and Sam's relationship was problematic in the first half, and then they talked in so many circles that I lost interest and had to speed read to the end. The Rotten Rosie angle was vaguely interesting, but I would've rather spent more time with Sam's family, the Cheyenne.
January 20, 2019
Love knows no time
What a great story. I simply love Sam he was the best ever . Annie is at times annoying as her adaptation is a modern woman - Sam chases people but he was the one who got caught by love.
What a great story. I simply love Sam he was the best ever . Annie is at times annoying as her adaptation is a modern woman - Sam chases people but he was the one who got caught by love.
April 2, 2023
Best of the Best
This is one of the best books I have ever read. It is exciting, romantic, and the characters were fun to get to know. I have read many of Eugenia Riley's books,and they were all just as wonderful. I can,t wait to read another of her fabulous time travel books.
This is one of the best books I have ever read. It is exciting, romantic, and the characters were fun to get to know. I have read many of Eugenia Riley's books,and they were all just as wonderful. I can,t wait to read another of her fabulous time travel books.
July 10, 2021
Great book
This book is a wonderful thing to read . I really love time books. This book really intrigued. Good read
This book is a wonderful thing to read . I really love time books. This book really intrigued. Good read
August 1, 2013
What a delightful escape I found in Ms. Riley's "Wanted Across Time". I have always been a fan of time travel romance since I read "Both Sides of Time" by Caroline B. Cooney in middle school - this took me back there, except it was slightly more charming, a lot more adult and there was a man on a horse vs. a grandiose socialite.
The set-up was a little awkward to me, and if I'm being honest it took me a while to get into. But that is the beauty of it all, Time travel doesn't exist in real life (or does it?) and Ms. Riley can take her creative license and whip up whatever method of getting us back to 1800 Texas any way she wants. I just wish there was a little more explanation at the conclusion of the book into the how of it all - I had a hard time accepting the let the spirits of the wind carry you. I found the transition between time a bit confusing and slightly cheesy.
Still, technicalities of time travel aside, the fire between Sam and Annie was so hot. I loved their spunk - each of them equally stubborn and smug. The adventure and the banter between the two as Sam tries to round up Annie and take her to her sentence is down right sexy. Once feelings get in the way of duty, I was all in. I was invested and wanted to know how this would all work; would same and Annie live a life on the run, would Sam go back to present day with Annie, would Annie stay with Sam, hell, would the whole story go South and Sam turn in Annie. All questions you'd have to read to get the answer to.
I found the premise of the book to be unique and the writing to be solid. Along with awesome character development, I could push this books flaws aside and give it a solid 4 stars. When I am in the mood for time travel romance I will for sure find my way back to Ms. Riley.
The set-up was a little awkward to me, and if I'm being honest it took me a while to get into. But that is the beauty of it all, Time travel doesn't exist in real life (or does it?) and Ms. Riley can take her creative license and whip up whatever method of getting us back to 1800 Texas any way she wants. I just wish there was a little more explanation at the conclusion of the book into the how of it all - I had a hard time accepting the let the spirits of the wind carry you. I found the transition between time a bit confusing and slightly cheesy.
Still, technicalities of time travel aside, the fire between Sam and Annie was so hot. I loved their spunk - each of them equally stubborn and smug. The adventure and the banter between the two as Sam tries to round up Annie and take her to her sentence is down right sexy. Once feelings get in the way of duty, I was all in. I was invested and wanted to know how this would all work; would same and Annie live a life on the run, would Sam go back to present day with Annie, would Annie stay with Sam, hell, would the whole story go South and Sam turn in Annie. All questions you'd have to read to get the answer to.
I found the premise of the book to be unique and the writing to be solid. Along with awesome character development, I could push this books flaws aside and give it a solid 4 stars. When I am in the mood for time travel romance I will for sure find my way back to Ms. Riley.
January 27, 2015
Wanted
Annie is trying to revive the ghost town of Dead horse much to the chagrin of a band of Cheyenne Indians who claim the land is theirs. When a ferocious wind storm sends her back to the 1880's and she is caught by a bounty hunter as Rotten Rosie, will she be able to convince Sam that she isn't who he thinks and stay out of the hangman noose or will this be the end? Sam doesn't understand why his captive acts differently than other outlaws he has captured, she spins a wild tail and he is falling for her. Can he figure out what's going on before she swings from a noose? Will they find the truly Rotten Rosie?
Annie is trying to revive the ghost town of Dead horse much to the chagrin of a band of Cheyenne Indians who claim the land is theirs. When a ferocious wind storm sends her back to the 1880's and she is caught by a bounty hunter as Rotten Rosie, will she be able to convince Sam that she isn't who he thinks and stay out of the hangman noose or will this be the end? Sam doesn't understand why his captive acts differently than other outlaws he has captured, she spins a wild tail and he is falling for her. Can he figure out what's going on before she swings from a noose? Will they find the truly Rotten Rosie?
February 4, 2010
anything by Eugenia Riley has my vote. I have been an avid fan since Phantom in the Bathtub. She does it again with this one. I just wish she would write something new, but I am enjoying reading her older works. Her time travel romances make me want to go there, wherever she sends me, it's bound to be a great ride.
May 16, 2016
What a fun time travel book.
Well written, good plot and different. Not a cookie cutter romance.
The characters made me fall in love with them and their crazy antics.
Good romance without being dark, boring or cheesy. This is not erotica and not a nail-biter, but just a thrilling unusual plot.
The end left me happy.
Well written, good plot and different. Not a cookie cutter romance.
The characters made me fall in love with them and their crazy antics.
Good romance without being dark, boring or cheesy. This is not erotica and not a nail-biter, but just a thrilling unusual plot.
The end left me happy.
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