This was a fast paced and entertaining time travel romance that took us from Carnegie, Pennsylvania in the present to the English-Scottish border in 1706. Widowed and still grieving, librarian Panna Kennedy is looking around her library when she finds a door that takes her across miles and across time. She meets James Bridgewater who is in the English army and who is the unacknowledged, bastard son of the Earl of Bridgewater. He is also the grandson of the Scottish clan chief Hector MacIver. James is a self-made man who has become wealthy from investing but he still yearns to be acknowledged by his father and grandfather.His main purpose right now is to keep the peace between the English and the Scots at the border but neither side trusts the other and his brother, the acknowledged son Viscount Adderly, is trying to tip the balance toward battle. At first James is convinced the Panna is a spy but she saves his life a couple of times and he comes around. They fall in love but don't think they have any sort of future because they are from two different times. And Jamie's actions are likely to get him killed before they can come to any sort of resolution. Also, the way time travel works is that a person can only come and go three times before the portal closes. Panna is on her third visit to Jamie's time. Her next time through the portal will be her last.Adderly had traveled through time earlier and, in fact, seduced the founder of the library where Panna now works. His trips gave him the plans to be a war hero which he took advantage of. He also had a reputation in Panna's time of being the sort of hero who rescued his fallen soldiers from great danger in the heat of battle. Unfortunately, history was wrong. Adderly is definitely the villain of this story. He is brutal, self-serving, and definitely wants to do Jamie harm. This was an exciting romance and filled with adventure as Jamie and Panna have to escape from two different castles and evade both British troops and Scottish warriors on their way to falling in love. I recommend this one for lovers of good historical romance.
