Kurland won a Rita for Stardust of Yesterday (Jove, 1996) and lives in the Pacific Northwest.Ĭopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.Īlexander Smith is a no-nonsense, modern day kind of guy visiting relatives in Scotland. Memorable, complex characters and a clean, fast-paced, yet descriptive writing style recommend this story, which has links to Kurland's A Dance Through Time (Jove, 1996). Lively, often funny, but brutally realistic, this well-written story pairs a defiant woman determined to defend her lands at all costs with a reluctant out-of-time hero who rises to the occasion, then gives them a cause to fight for and a love to live for and lets their actions drive the plot. What he gets, however, is a change of time when an old pirate map and a gate to the past suddenly land him in the forests of medieval England at the feet of a strangely lovely armor-clad knightAa knight who eventually not only abducts him but turns out to be a woman. Wealthy beyond measure but disillusioned and unfulfilled by his years as a corporate raider, Alex Smith definitely needs a change of scene. And when he was captured in Medieval England by Margaret of Falconberg, a fierce beauty hidden in knight's armor, he rediscovered his own chivalrous-and passionate-heart. Then, at the MacLeod Keep in Scotland, he found a pirate map that miraculously answered his yearnings-with a journey to another time. That had always escaped him.along with true love. From Lynn Kurland, the New York Times bestselling author of the Nine Kingdom series.Īlexander Smith had found success in the world of corporate takeovers-but not happiness.

One Enchanted Evening by Lynn Kurland