ARC read 2025
Rose is 19, she is visiting Scotland for the first time with her Mother Janet and instead of enjoying herself and touring the school campus where she wants to eventually transfer to as a physics student she has spent her time running after her mother and paying for damages... some trip this has turned out to be to top it off she didn't even get to go on the campus tour because her mom ran off (again!) and she got a lead for where she was.
Running after her mother she ends up at an old Inn where she ends up having some unexpected visitors to her room, and not just the lady who drinks too much and can't remember which room is her own, she sees what she believes is a ghost only he doesn't frighten her one might say his presence is even calming but who is he and what was his fate?
Rose has always taken care of others (especially her mom) and she's a hard worker helping on her grandfather's farm she was looking forward to this trip for many reasons including maybe even meeting additional family... her mother is from Scotland after all. Finally deciding she has had enough of her mother's antics she ends up doing what she is there to do touring the area which leads her to a grave yard and a broken down castle which might have been impressive at one point but now is just broken down piles of rubble with ... is that a pit in what would have been the dining area?
Taking the scenic route does have it's drawbacks when she ends up lost, not being able to find her way back she ends up wandering around the forest and right into a hut opening the door she blacks out only to awaken in a totally different century, long gone are modern day luxuries she is in 1622 and the ghostly male that visited her is now very real and in this hut along with an older woman who clearly can't stand her and she has no idea why she doesn't even know anyone here or how she managed to open a door and slip through time.
With no one to help her navigate this new world she has to rely on her wits (which at times get her in trouble with her modern day thinking) as she works to figure out how to return to her own time she only manages to grow closer to Callum the young Scotsman who she had felt so connected to even prior to flying back in time. The closer she grows to Callum the more she wonders how she will ever be able to leave him, maybe she can take him back to the future with her?
Rose finds herself in the middle of a war between a powerful clan who will stop at nothing to get rid of their enemies entirely, ancient magic that she knows very little about and has no good way to ask for help with this since speaking of these things in this time period could potentially be deadly and she is also is struggling with living under the same roof as the older woman who doesn't like her at all... seriously what is this woman's problem?
I really enjoyed this book even before I read it I was intrigued Time-travel in Scotland with a handsome highlander, yes please! sign me up. The book does have some similarities to the Outlander series but it had enough differences to make it unique and I enjoyed the mistake by the magic element that led to our FMC traveling back learning more about her past and her mother in the process.
Rose and Callum form a close bond that she finds to be even closer than anything she has in her modern time and even a kitchen girl being with the handsome blacksmith/stable boy could lead to danger for both of them in this time.
I did have a hard time with our FMC sometimes because while she was a smart physics student she also struggled at times with reading the room... you aren't in your own time and don't have as much verbal freedom or any freedom at this point back in time she became a servant to the laird of the castle (yes the one that is in ruins in modern time), her mouth got herself and more often Callum in trouble on multiple occasions throughout the book.
I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series!
*strong FMC *Time Travel romance *young adult *Scotland *Outlaw MMC *no spice (kisses only)
*Slow burn *American FMC *Ancient Magic *Book Sirens *ARC *Cinnamon Role MMC
*Highlander MMC
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