Isobel MacInnes is visiting her grandfather in Scotland when she uncovers a strange metallic box in a peat bank. She is an archaeologist, and knows she shouldn't, but she still unearths it and brings it back to UCLA.
FORGED IN DREAMS AND MAGICK is the first of a time travel - Highland romance series. I'd read the second, set firmly in thirteenth century Scotland, and decided I needed to read the first to see exactly how the time travelling took place. Well, apparently it occurs when a woman kisses a Scottish man while holding the box. This particular Scot, Iain Brodie, has already made a similar journey forward to Isobel's time. Isobel, reeling from her first real kiss, is shocked to find herself in a crude stone room with a man in plaid clothing. Iain tells her that the clan laird uses the box to find his soul mate to strengthen the clan. She insists on trying to go home at once, but it doesn't work again... seems she's stuck.
Sensibly for a time traveller, Isobel decides she had better blend in with the locals, and accepts hospitality from Iain. I liked the way that this academic adapted to medieval life in a cold castle. She finds Iain attractive, but she doesn't want to marry him! Isobel's accent and manners are explained by stating that she is English, as these people don't know of the Americas. However the English are not universally popular in Scotland, and Isobel has to watch her step, even among friendly red-haired lasses and the handsomest men she's ever seen. Besides which, she's caffeine-deprived. At least she has one advantage; she's taken archery lessons. But time travel isn't finished with her - she's yet to meet primitive Picts.
There is so much to read that it is hard to pick out what I enjoyed the most, with battles, romance and a love triangle through time. If you like action in your highland tales or just enjoy time travel with good solid characters FORGED IN DREAMS AND MAGICK is a fine read.
Kat Bastion's award-winning debut in the Highland Legends Series:Isobel MacInnes wakes up in present-day California, lunches in medieval Scotland, and by ten days’ end, falls in love with a man and his country, only to lose them in a heart-wrenching twist of fate . . .Found in the arms of her second soul mate . . .Forced to balance the delicate strands of time between two millennia . . .Shocked by revelations rewriting the very foundations of history . . . of everything.Isobel, a rising-star archaeology student, is dropped into two ancient worlds without warning . . . or her permission. Her fiery spirit resists the dependency thrust upon her. Amid frustration at her lack of control, she helplessly falls in love. Twice.She struggles to adjust to the unimaginable demands of two leaders of men—a laird in the thirteenth-century Highlands and a Pict chieftain in a more ancient Scotland. Isobel transforms from an academic, hell-bent on obtaining archaeological recognition, to a woman striving to care for those she loves, and ultimately . . . into a fearless warrior risking everything to protect them.
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