Marti Jones

Thrust back in time after a meteor strikes her car, the heroine stumbles upon a run down shack in her search for help. The man who answers is a depressed warn out yet sexy man with three small children and a farmer to tend to alone. He mistakes her for the wife he's post an ad for but the heroine's in no place to deny him after realizing where and when she is. She agrees to help around the place until she finds a way home but only as a housekeeper and babysitter for his kids. They fall into a quiet and peaceful life and the heroine, who knew absolutely nothing about kids or housekeeping begins to take pleasure in having her own home, even if it's just for a short time. She also falls hard for the hero who is nothing but a kind, sweet and gentle man. There was a pretty strong message laced through the book that true happiness comes when a woman has a family and a home but I didn't mind it. The heroine did enjoy pleasing the hero in little ways like helping on the farm and rising early to take on some of his chores when planting season overwhelmed him. I liked the homely vibe to the whole story and loved the sexual tension between the two characters. They don't even kiss until half way through the book but throughout is a defiantly awareness of each other and it steadily grows and builds as the story goes on. The heroine was a nice girl who had a tendency to run when things got hard and when it's clear she has nowhere else to go, she's finally forced to pause and work her way through it. It frustrated me to no end that she would even want to go back to her time when nothing was waiting for her there but debt, loneliness and no job. Just imagining the hero's blue eyes shining with love as me would make me never ever think about leaving. I really liked this book. Though it is a softly paced book describing basic farm life in the old days, I was never board.… (més)