Only Time Will Tell

When she was seven, Courtney Moss' mother abandoned her, leaving her with her grandmother in Virginia City, Montana. Courtney's grandmother felt the child was an intrusion and though she provided food and shelter, she never displayed one ounce of love towards the sad little girl. Courtney learned that love, if it ever exists, hurts.Several weeks after her grandmother's funeral, Courtney is back in Virginia City cleaning out the house instead of fine-tuning her sketches for a job interview. In the attic she finds a nineteenth century ball gown. Her friend Ryan persuades her to wear it to the upcoming Victorian Ball. At the gala Courtney becomes locked in a shed. When Heath Sullivan frees her, she finds somehow that she went back in time to 1864.Heath and Courtney are attracted to one another, but she rejects the notion of love and he believes he does not deserve anyone's love. He believes he caused the death of a friend, a runaway slave. Will time heal all wounds or just add pain as neither person can take that last step towards one another.Time is not needed to know that time travel romance readers will enjoy Sherry Lewis' latest tale. The scarred lead couple makes for a fine story line as each slowly enters a relationship that they distrust not because so much of the other, but because of the baggage they carry. Though the reason for the travel is weak and the adjustment facile, readers will rate highly ONLY TIME WILL TELL because of the delightful protagonists who deserve a lasting love.Harriet Klausner

When Courtney Moss returned to her hometown, she only intended to clean out her grandmother's attic, but she ends up attending a Victorian Ball as a favor to a friend. She never intended to travel back in time over a hundred years. That is what she does though when she is trapped in the city gym that turns into a shed in the past.Heath Sullivan rescues her, but the haunted loner almost wishes he had not. The girl is clearly crazy with all her talk about being from the future. Though the two are put off from each other at first, and Courtney desperately wants to return to the world that has deodorant and toothpaste, somehow, they begin to soften. The woman has opened up a pained heart that Heath thought long turned cold, and somehow, Courtney finds herself falling for not only this hurting man, but for the whole world that she has discovered.*... While Heath is a truly sexy and appealing hero, and Courtney an endearing heroine who never fails to amuse, the story on the whole was a bit unsatisfying. There was too little conflict and not much sense of purpose to the time traveling.