"An amusing time travel romance"

In 1783 Charleston, South Carolina, the gypsy woman accosts Irish Sea Captain Declan O'Shea, who is polite, but starts to move on. However, she offers him several items of jewelry and still being courteous, he chooses a medallion containing an amulet. Not long afterward, Declan survives a shipwreck that leaves him on the beach of Sunset Key, Florida, circa 2002.

Declan meets accountant Libby Grayson, raising a five-year- old by herself ever since Brett Ritter deserted them. As Declan and Libby begin to fall in love, he wonders if he will stay in this fascinating time with his beloved and her cherished son while she questions her choice in men as he is obviously a lunatic.

SAY YOU'RE MINE is an amusing time travel romance starring a besieged modern day woman and a roguish eighteenth century charmer. The support cast, especially her child, enables the audience to better understand the lead protagonists. The story line is fun though Declan adapts too easily to the technology. Still fans will have a good time and want to read more works from Julie McCoy (see YOU'RE THE ONE and I DREAM OF YOU).

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 15, 2002

Patriotic pirate, Declan O'Shae, sails to the Florida Keys to recoup his buried treasure. Before he leaves the dock in Charlestown, a mysterious gypsy woman gives him a medallion. When he arrives in the Keys, his boat is destroyed in a hurricane and he crawls to the safety of an underwater cave, where he sleeps for 200+ years. Libby Grayson is sick of irresponsible men. She returns to the Keys with her five-year-old son to help her grandfather with his failing business. When she finds a stranger sleeping on a ledge in a waterlogged cavern, she is positive the man is out to bilk her small town of aging citizens. Or is he? Declan is taken by Libby's son, but he is absolutely crazy about her. How can he convince Libby he's telling the truth about his past and make her understand that while he wants her, he also wants his treasure? When a force of nature threatens the Keys very existence, both Declan and Libby realize that, sometimes, the real treasures in life are the ones of the heart.

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Summary

That's all Libby Grayson can think when she meets devastatingly handsome Irishman Declan O'Shea. She's had some bad luck with unstable men, but this takes the cake. It isn't just that the roguish hunk says he knows where there's a buried treasure...or that he swears the medallion he wears is a magical amulet given to him by a gypsy...or that he confessed during a night of amazing, toe-curling passion that he's really an Irish sea captain, swept onto Libby's Florida beach after a shipwreck more than two centuries ago. It's that the guy honestly believes every word of it.

Worse than that, Libby is starting to believe it, too...