"A refreshingly different time travel"
In 1200 AD during a clan battle in the Scottish Highlands,
a wizard casts a spell that sends several MacBain and
MacKeage warriors into the twenty-first century. The ten
time travelers include the MacKeage brothers Greylen and
Morgan. A pregnant Mary Sutter fled her lover Michael MacBain when
he insisted he was born in 1171. She stays with her sister
Grace in Norfolk before deciding to return to her beloved
Michael. Instead she dies in a car accident. She gives
birth to a son, makes Grace promise to take the child to
Michael, and asks for her ashes to be spread in Maine. Rocket scientist Grace receives a sabbatical to complete
her sister's dying wishes. Flying over Maine with one
other passenger besides herself and her nephew, the plane
crashes killing the pilot. The other flier Greylen keeps
Grace, who he recognizes as his soul mate, and the baby
alive by using all he learned in the highlands almost a
millennium ago in real time, but not too long ago in his
biological time. This engaging time travel romance occurs after the
displaced Highlanders have some time to adapt to their new
environs. Still the audience observes the discomfit of
Greylen when he flies on the commuter plane as this goes
against all he knows (if God wants man to fly he would have
given him wings attitude). It is this type of detail to
the feelings especially of the lead couple that turns this
into a delightful tale. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted January 15, 2003
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