As a driven banking executive in New York, Julia Brodie had
little patience for delays and anything in the way of her
determined plans for her career. Even taking a few days to
attend her favourite cousin's wedding in Scotland made her
anxious to get home. Home, but what was there but an empty
apartment and no family now her father had died.
Stalled and bored in the heavy traffic on the A9 on her way
to Glasgow to catch her flight, Julia itched for something
to do. Thinking about the little pouch given to her by her
cousin, Catriona, after her wedding with strict
instructions NOT to open until she reached home, Julia
reached for it and pulled out a beautiful antique amethyst
necklace. Putting it on, it quickly warmed and glowed on
her skin. Without warning, she was flung from her car and
transported back in time and space. Stunned and surprised,
she had been transported to a castle in the Scottish
lowlands where she meet a man dressed as a chaplain. Julia
instantly suspected he was not who he was and verbally
sparred with him until she realized in shock that Talon
McClure was truthful when he said it was 1688.
Begging him to send her home, she soon realized that she
would have to help him with his quest if she was to get
back. Intrigued by her bonny spirit, her mismatched eyes,
and her blonde beauty, Talon soon found himself opening up
to her and telling her about his youth and meting Hegarty
and his ring of magic that provided what was needed, not
always what was asked.
Independent to the core, Julia consistently resists all of
Talon's overtures as he attempts to bring her into loving
embraces. Yet, the longer she spends with him and realizes
that he is a good man inside, the less certain she feels
about leaving. But, can the magic they have between them
overcome the bloody and dreaded evil that has hounded her
family for centuries?
To help distinguish things for her readers, Pamela Palmer,
under the pseudonym of Pamela Montgomerie, has written a
new series of Jewels in Time novels which are more
lighthearted and set in historical times. AMETHYST DESTINY
is the Dsecond in this series and is a very entertaining
time travel romance - both as a stand alone or
part of the series. Talon and Julia are well crafted
characters with realistic flaws and you feel for both of
them as they slowly reveal their hurt and troubled pasts to
each other. The language and bantering is fun as they flip
between contemporary and historical phrasing and their
adventures and encounters with others leaves you hungering
to read the tale without stopping. In all the incredible
events, how they will get ingredients for a Mexican dinner
is still beyond my ken.
Thank goodness, another book will be forthcoming in this
series as I am hungering to find out more about Hegarty and
how all the secondary characters got connected by the
jewels. A veritable magical treat to enjoy!
Julia Brodie ignores her Scottish cousin's orders not to
touch the antique-looking necklace until she gets back to
New York, and finds herself yanked back to
seventeenth-century Scotland. Talon thinks his own magic
ring delivered the petite beauty to him to help him succeed
in his latest mission. But when his mission puts her in
mortal danger, he begins to realize love is the greatest
magic of all.
Julie Brodie cannot understand why her Scottish cousin gave
her a necklace, then insisted she not touch it until she got
back to New York--until she tries on the beautiful purple
garnet outside the Glasgow airport and wakes up in
seventeenth-century Scotland. Rescued by Talon, a charming
Scottish rogue with an uncanny ability to make her pulse
race, she learns that magic has called her through time to
perform a task.
Known as the Wizard, Talon MacClure can find anything tanks
to a powerful amethyst ring--a jewel essential to his
survival and one he must protect at all cost. But when the
amethyst delivers him Julia, then sends them on a perilous
mission that puts her in mortal danger, he begins to suspect
he will risk everything for love...the greatest magic of
all.
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