"Wonderful time-travel romance."

Marjory Macpherson isn't at all saddened to hear that her husband, Ewen, has been killed in a rock slide. It had been a marriage-of-convenience to align her family with their enemies, the Cameron clan. But when she hears that her father-in-law is heading to her home with revenge in his heart, her husband's death doesn't seem quite so fortuitous. Instead, she goes out to recover his body - only to find him alive.

As Cameron regains consciousness, he can't figure out where his world has gone. As his mind adjusts to the fact that he's apparently traveled back in time, he finds himself intrigued with his (or this Ewen person's) wife. Can he convince Marjory that he isn't the brutal man who was her husband, but has somehow come to be in his body?

Taking a break from contemporary suspense, Ms. Davis has penned a highly enjoyable time-travel romance. Dee Davis never fails to delight me with her writing.

Reviewed by Morgan Chilson
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted November 17, 2003

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Summary

ROSE

Marjory Macpherson felt rebirth at hand. She'd known fifteen years of winter since her parents' brutal murder at the hands of the rival Cameron clan. But now Ewen—the enemy son she'd been forced to marry—was dead, perished in a rockslide. Marjory rejoiced. She could shed her thorns...at least, until her husband's father returned.

IS A ROSE

Yet, was her husband dead? When Marjory went to retrieve Ewen's body, she found instead a living breathing man, covered in blood, talking strangely but very much alive.

BY ANY OTHER NAME

Although he wore her husband's face and kilt, Marjory recognized salvation. Whether he was a kinder Ewen or another who, as he claimed, had been transplanted from the future, the man she'd found was the key, a strange twist of fate that reseeded Marjory's future. It was finally time for Crannag Mhóór to bloom again: a rebirth that brought with it the promise of true love.