Ryan knows what he saw.
A woman vanished beneath his hand on a quiet street in York. One moment she was standing beside him, and the next she was gone, leaving Ryan Manning with no explanation for something he knew could not possibly have happened. For weeks, he has returned to the place where she disappeared, searching for an answer. Then the impossible happens again, and this time, it takes him.
Cast seven centuries into the past, Ryan finds himself among armed men who have little patience for his strange clothing, stranger speech, or inability to explain where he came from. The only person standing between him and their brutality is Aveline, a beautiful young widow with troubles enough of her own.
Aveline de Graham has lost her husband, the child she carried, and the only home her young daughter has ever known. With no son to secure her place in her husband's family, she is being sent back to the father she left years ago, hoping to salvage what remains of her life. Instead, she discovers that home offers no refuge. Her father has already arranged another marriage, and Aveline is soon bound north toward a man she has neither met nor chosen.
Ryan has no title, no lands, and not so much as a place in this impossible century, yet when he travels north with her, the mysterious stranger who should have been only another burden becomes the one man who sees Aveline not as a widow, a daughter, or a useful bride, but as a woman entitled to choose her own future.
As the miles pass and friendship deepens into something neither intended, the life awaiting Aveline becomes harder to accept. Ryan knows he doesn't belong in her world, while Aveline knows she cannot simply abandon the obligations of hers. With winter closing around them and an unwanted marriage waiting at journey's end, they must decide whether a love that defies seven centuries is worth defying everything else.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
A woman vanished beneath his hand on a quiet street in York. One moment she was standing beside him, and the next she was gone, leaving Ryan Manning with no explanation for something he knew could not possibly have happened. For weeks, he has returned to the place where she disappeared, searching for an answer. Then the impossible happens again, and this time, it takes him.
Cast seven centuries into the past, Ryan finds himself among armed men who have little patience for his strange clothing, stranger speech, or inability to explain where he came from. The only person standing between him and their brutality is Aveline, a beautiful young widow with troubles enough of her own.
Aveline de Graham has lost her husband, the child she carried, and the only home her young daughter has ever known. With no son to secure her place in her husband's family, she is being sent back to the father she left years ago, hoping to salvage what remains of her life. Instead, she discovers that home offers no refuge. Her father has already arranged another marriage, and Aveline is soon bound north toward a man she has neither met nor chosen.
Ryan has no title, no lands, and not so much as a place in this impossible century, yet when he travels north with her, the mysterious stranger who should have been only another burden becomes the one man who sees Aveline not as a widow, a daughter, or a useful bride, but as a woman entitled to choose her own future.
As the miles pass and friendship deepens into something neither intended, the life awaiting Aveline becomes harder to accept. Ryan knows he doesn't belong in her world, while Aveline knows she cannot simply abandon the obligations of hers. With winter closing around them and an unwanted marriage waiting at journey's end, they must decide whether a love that defies seven centuries is worth defying everything else.
Genre: Paranormal Romance