To Catch the Wind (Dreamspun)

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Summary: Excellent romance + time travel aspect
Review: I really love this book. It's not the greatest novel ever written; it's not even the greatest love story ever written, but there's just something so true & touching about the feelings it invokes that it sticks in your head!

A professor of history (Noelle van Bredin) begins to relive the life of the wife of Charles II of England. In her "real" life, her marriage falls apart due to her husband's infidelity and she falls in love with Andrew Macdonald, the son of a man convicted of espionage with the Soviet Union in 1961. The novel's setting is thirty years later, so parts of it are somewhat dated, but that doesn't spoil the dramatic effect. The time travel aspect is handled superbly. I ordinarily hate time-travel novels, but this one is really superior in that way. This is one romance novel you could picture as a movie; it's vividly described. All the emotions are honest. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Excellent historical information in a fictional context.
Review: I've always loved books that include REAL historic information in the guise of a fictional story. I looked up all of the historical information after reading this book and found all of it to be accurate. The book was about reincarnation, which I do believe in, so was interesting to me in that venue as well. I would throughly enjoy reading any other titles similar to this one, which included historical fact, reincarnation, romance and intrigue. This one had it all!