I love a good time travel story. This is the fourth book in the series but it was good as a stand alone story. Fancy is in 1783 when the story begins and on board a ship to Ireland. The story has Kirk the seafaring man who loves her and then there is Richard who is a doctor from the present time who also loves her. In this story Fancy goes through a hurricane and loses Kirk to go back to McCarron's Corner to the present time where Richard had returned. The story takes us to the present time with Fancy and Richard with their life and her children have joined them.

I am aware that time travel romance is big business at the moment, and this is a number of books into an ongoing sequence about a modern family who via Native American connects seem to be able to travel back to the US War Of Independence to find partners. This far into the sequence our lead Fancy is post much romantic (and anything but romantic) trauma. This is an odd book, for the first half it seems to continue her adventures, married to an angry Irish sea captain whilst frustrating her one true love from the future. The language is hugely anachronistic for a first person narrative , not to mention the narrative bounces around to a number of viewpoint characters. But there is a reason for that...

...Because halfway through the book it reverses the general time travel trend and our heroine ends up in modern day. She is pretty OK with this, rolling with most of the punches and eventually getting a book deal for the book you are reading, and a film deal too. There is something oddly fun about the meta narrative, though I have to admit at that point my credulity was stretched beyond the bounds of the book and I was just interested where and why we had open heart surgery, a 21st century psycho and the like and the lack of fear that they were breaking time itself by bringing a family of 18th century kids into the future. There is also a weird bigamy subplot which is seemingly very important which really isn't. So I came in at a disadvantage, and thought it was all a bit nuts, but I can't say I didn't enjoy the nonsense.