Alicia's Song

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Summary: Fantastic time travel romance
Review: At the Drexel cemetery in the Wyoming mountains, the three sisters sing Christian songs at the burial of local witch Yolanda D'Arcy. No one else including the caretaker Digger Phelps (not the former Irish coach) attend the ceremony. Soon a fog comes out of nowhere and engulfs the female trio.

Alicia, a botanist, quickly realizes that she is no longer in Wyoming, but seemingly in the Alaskan wilderness. Her two siblings are not with her, but she is not alone. She is near the home of logging mogul Caleb Marker who is shocked that a governess has arrived so soon. Stunned to realize that she also traveled back in time to 1895, Alicia accepts the job offer especially after meeting Caleb's daughter. As the trio fall in love and have the possibility of forging a family together, he cannot let go of a past betrayal while she worries about her sisters and whether she will return to her proper place in time.

ALICIA'S SONG is an entertaining time travel romance that readers will fully enjoy even as they breathlessly await the upcoming stories starring the two siblings. Though a botanist and from a ranch, Alicia's acceptance seems too simple and easy, yet the audience will still adore the chronically impaired heroine. Caleb also leaves quite a mark on the readers, as does his daughter. Susan Plunkett opens her time travel romance with a fun to read scene that fans will find delightful.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: What Reader's say about ALICIA'S SONG
Review: For a read that is intelligently and emotionally satisfying, whether or not your tastes normally run to time travel, ALICIA'S SONG is very much a keeper. -- Romance Reviews Today

A light-hearted plot, delicious sexual tension and a well-researched setting makes this a quick, fun read. Though Alicia never has a chance to explain her disappearance to her sisters, we assume they know of her fate from the old witch's forecast and will adjust as easily as Alicia has. - Romantic Times

Of all the time travels I've read, there has only been one that I can truly say I enjoyed and kept as part of my personal library. So, when handed Alicia's Song I was not looking forward to reviewing it. To my relief, it proved to be an enjoyable, well written novel. If the next two books in Ms. Plunkett's series are as well done as this one, I look forward to reading them. -- The Romance Journal

Ms. Plunkett is a rare talent who captivates you with her storytelling ability. I'm really thrilled with this Alaskan trilogy starting with ALICIA'S SONG!" --Suzanne Coleburn

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Summary: Difficult to suspend disbelief
Review: My major complaint about reading romance novels is that most end too abruptly. Did the writer get tired of writing? Did the editor insist the story really ends here? Will the publisher only allow an average of 320 pages? But I'll confess that my complaints of this book are not only with its abrupt ending. And, I was left with far too many questions at the end of the book.

I could suspend my disbelief in the vague, inexplicable way Alicia is transported through time, but I really needed more character development to believe these two people could really cared for each other so quickly. Also, this book held no surprises for me. I predicted every plot turn well before it happened and the only redeeming aspect was the well-written dialogue between Alicia and Caleb (and the love scenes were good). But it just simply felt rushed.

For all my critism though, I did manage to finish the book primarily because I wanted to know what was going to happen. The characters are likeable and did manage to hold my interest. And, I might have given it a better review if it had just had 2 or 3 more pages, or at least an epilogue. Many, many times a good epilogue can make up for an abrupt ending.

It's rare for me to not give a favorable recommendation for a book. And I had read several good reviews of this one, but I found myself rolling my eyes far too often throughout. I may enjoy my romantic fantasies, but I need more realism thrown in to believe it.

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Summary: What Reader's say about ALICIA'S SONG
Review: Once again Susan Plunkett captures the reader with her lyrical prose and intriguing characters. In her new trilogy, three sisters are transported from present day Drexel Wyoming, to long ago Alaska. I loved Alicia's song, and can't wait to see what happened to Alicia's sisters.

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Summary: A FABULOUS TIME TRAVEL!
Review: Once again Susan Plunkett captures the reader with her lyrical prose and intriguing characters. In her new trilogy, three sisters are transported from present day Drexel Wyoming, to long ago Alaska. I loved Alicia's song, and can't wait to see what happened to Alicia's sisters.

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Summary: Tender, Passionate: Sings to Your Heart
Review: Susan Plunkett's Alicia's Song is a stunningly beautiful novel replete with searing passion and genuine love. It celebrates the wonder and tenderness of not only an extraordinary man and woman meant for each other but also of that special love between a parent and child.

Alicia James, along with her beloved sisters Bethany and Caitlyn, has since childhood sung in graveyards to bless the spirits of the recently departed. But when the three sing for Yolanda D'Arcy, who was widely reputed to have been a witch, Alicia is swept from her home in modern rural Wyoming to the pristine mystical beauty of 1895 Sitka.

Alicia immediately encounters Caleb Marker, a devastatingly handsome, passionate and tender lumberman devoted to Mariah, his bright and full-hearted 5-year-old daughter.

After a grueling process in which Alicia-a thoroughly modern botanist with haunting violet eyes-must come to terms with the impossibility of her having traveled through time, Alicia takes on the only work she can find: a live-in position as Mariah's governess.

Mariah quickly comes to worship the warm, imaginative and highly intelligent Alicia-whom she longs to have as her mommy-while Alicia and Caleb fight the enormous passion that is growing between them. After a disastrous marriage, the last thing Alicia wants is to fall in love, while Caleb is utterly captivated yet wary of the intriguing "wood nymph" who shares all his values but will share almost nothing about her past.

As mutual passion, respect and a limited trust blossom into love, Alicia and Caleb must come to terms with the secrets they have from one another which threaten to destroy the most extraordinary relationship they have ever imagined.

Plunkett writes with such passion and wonder that the reader is spellbound. Alicia's Song reverberates with the lush, wild and fragile beauty of a magnificent setting that reflects an equally magnificent love. The exquisitely crafted characters possess such vitality and appeal that the delighted reader's heart also sings.

I was utterly captivated and unable to put down this supremely entertaining, uplifting and life-affirming novel. Plunkett's sensitivity, wisdom and magic with words places her high on the must-read list for any romance lover.