Love Came Just In Time (Lynn Kurland)

These are four of Kurland's novellas that were previously published in other anthologies but have now been combined under one cover.

In The Gift Of Christmas Past, a feline angel pulls his mistress back in time to a night long ago, where she finds her own true love...A quaint country inn becomes the haunting ground for The Three Wise Ghosts, a spirited trio of matchmakers who scare a freewheeling American and a single-minded British executive into love...A Scottish nobleman drifts off to sleep in fourteenth-century dungeon, only to awaken in a twentieth-century Manhattan bridal salon, and the arms of a beautiful designer, in And The Groom Wore Tulle... And in The Icing On The Cake, opposites indeed attract when a staid writer warms the heart of a wilderness buff who's more interested in fending off grizzlies than fending off men...

I really enjoyed getting to read the stories of some of the back characters of other novels I've read. I was disappointed in the Miles' story in the Gift of Christmas Past because he didnt seem to be anything like what he has been in other stories and he seemed clueless to some things that he apparently knew in his past so I guess you just have to take this story with a bit of grain and just think of it as its own story.

The other stories were great and I highly recommend this collection.

The More I See You (Lynn Kurland)

A wish upon a star transports the luckless-in-love Jessica Blakely back in time to the thirteenth century. But her desire for a fair and gallant knight yields the fearsome Richard De Galtres. Though wary of Jessica's mysterious ways, Richard protectively harbors her in his castle by the sea. Though her stubborn will nearly drives him mad, the very sight of her uts a smile on a face that has known too few. And when Jessica's tender desire pierces the armor around his heart, Richard fears he may never be able to recover - or resist...

I absolutely love this book! I love it how Richard is so rough and tough but most of that eventually melts away because of Jessica and the love and patience that she shows to him.

A Dance Through Time (Lynn Kurland)

Scotland, 1311. James MacLeod was the most respected and feared laird in all of Scotland. He loved his men like brothers and his land with a passion. And he allowed no women to cross the threshold of his keep...

New York City, 1996. With an indifferent fiance and a stalled writing career, Elizabeth Smith found passion and adventure only in the unpublished romance novels that she wrote. Until a Scottish hero began calling to her...

Elizabeth longed for the man of her dreams. But she knew she was overworked when she began hearing his voice - when she was awake. To clear her mind, she took a walk in Gramercy Park. She dozed off on a bench - and woke up in a lush forest in fourteenth-century Scotland. A forest surrounding the castle of James MacLeod, an arrogant and handsome lord with a very familiar voice. Elizabeth would turn his ordered world upside-down and go where no woman had ever gone before: straight into his heart...

Loved this story. Both of the main characters are feisty.

(I believe this is the first one chronologically for the MacLeod series)

Another Chance To Dream (Lynn Kurland)

With neither title nor land, Rhys could not win the hand of Gwennelyn of Segrave. But he would always have her heart. The two are kindred souls...Rhys, a knight with far too many notions of chivalry for his own good. And Fwen, a lover of minstral tales, waiting to be swept away. But Gwen is betrothed to another man, and Rhys fears he will lose her forever. Until a surprise offer comes his way - bringing Rhys and Gwen a second chance at love and another chance to dream.

This is the first book (time-line wise) of the Artain series. It is a great addition to the series. I enjoyed the characters, especially the two hulking Fitzgerald twins.

A Distant Thunder (Anita Stansfield)

Jayson sighed. “I miss the naivete of youth. I miss making music in the basement and eating your father’s cooking . . . playing my music and being with the people I loved.”
Elizabeth couldn’t hide the fact that she was a little choked up when she said, “I echo that . . . And I miss the rain.”
Following long moments of quiet, Jayson said, “Rain is . . . just rain . . . and no matter where I go, it’s always raining in my heart.”
After battling personal, professional, and financial setbacks, it looks as though Jayson finally has it all—fame, fortune, and a great family. However, he learns how swiftly a rising star can become extinguished. The problem was that Jayson actually had no life left at all. He had no career, no daughter or mother who needed him. His brother was busy with a flourishing career, and Elizabeth had her family.
Just when he reaches an irreversible crisis point in his life, God’s arms reach out to protect Jayson from his own worst impulses. But the road to healing can be arduous and elusive. And even with the love and support of his precious Elizabeth, can Jayson be reclaimed?
Renowned LDS author Anita Stansfield keeps her readers riveted as the drama of A Distant Thunder relentlessly unfolds. Part two of the Jayson Wolfe story is complicated and intense, charged with real-life parallels and struggles that are finely drawn and profoundly moving.

From This Moment On (Lynn Kurland)

Colin of Berkhamshire knows two things - the pleasure of warring and that brides do not want him. Two years ago his bride-to-be, Alienore, fled and hasn't been seen since. Yet his father keeps foisting prospects on him. The latest seems to do nothing but faint.

Alienore of Solonge knows two things as well - that fleeing not only Colin but also her scheming stepmother was the right thing to do. Yet as a knight in disguise she constantly fears discovery. At this point, she's not sure whom she fears more, the Butcher of Berkhamshire or her evil stepmother.

Through a bizarre twist of fate, she ends up journeying with her charge- Colin's latest intended - to England, where Alienore finds herself not only in the Butcher of Berkhamshire's garrison, but being made over into a knight by him personally. She thinks her lie cannot worsen

Until she begins to fall in love with him...

I was definitely entertained by reading this book. Colin was constantly doing things the "manly way." I loved his version of wooing (fighting, telling bloody stories, showing how to sharpen a sword).I still dont believe a girl can get away with impersonating a guy for all that long a time.

The Sound of Rain (Anita Stansfield)

Jayson felt almost as if he'd been catapulted into some eerie time warp as he stood and looked out over the ocean. It had been Drew's idea . . . to stop first at the place they'd come with their mother fewer than two years earlier. And Jayson couldn't deny that for all the grief and heartache he was taking with him . . . his musical abilities had grown through the experiences he'd found in Oregon, and his heart had been touched in ways that had changed him forever.
Friendships and relationships formed and forged through the fiery furnace of experience have left Jayson Wolfe wiser, sadder, and anxious to embrace new hopes and dreams. In the life he is reconstructing, his music is as essential as oxygen, and failure is unimaginable. But does life ever go as planned?
In this first volume of her new series, acclaimed LDS storyteller Anita Stansfield once again reaches out to her readers' hearts, minds, and spirits as she explores both the joy and grief that accompany complicated and intricate relationships. And her readers will find part one of this trilogy compelling and intense, heartwarming and heartbreaking — a deeply rooted love story with heart-stopping consequences.

I loved this book and am looking forward to books # 2 and 3. I had to put the book down at one point, because my eyes were too blurry from tears to continue reading. It also makes you appreciate things in life.