ANOTHER CHANCE IN TIME
1st Books
ISBN 0759643644
June 2001
Time Travel Romance

After her father is murdered, modern day policewoman and witch, Danielle (Dani) Coraletti is summoned to England by her grandmother. There she is told she must pursue the man who killed her father back in time to save King Henry VII and his queen from the same man, a priest who dreams of the Catholic church dominating the world. The catch is, Dani will not be able to return to her own world. It is a one-way ticket to the past. Though she fights against it every step of the way, inevitably, Dani and her uncle, Morgan, journey back five hundred years.

Morgan hires men to escort them to the Knight Templar they have been told can help them save the royal couple, then he disappears after learning his true love whom he thought dead is somewhere in that world. Left alone with the soldiers and their leader, who does not trust her, Dani continues the journey. After surviving a magical assault, she learns that the leader of her escort, Stephen, is none other than the Knight she is seeking!

Despite the secrets between them, Dani's intense desire to find a way home, and Stephen's still mourning his late wife to the extent that he is preparing to take a vow of celibacy, the two fall in love. Will that love survive if Stephen learns that Dani's mission will ensure the death of the crown prince, Arthur, whom his order believes to be the second coming of King Arthur himself, and whom Stephen is sworn to protect?

This is a fast paced novel that holds your attention from page one. Dani is one of the most believable time traveling heroines I have seen. She fights for the chance to get back to modern life every step of the way instead of settling into the past comfortably, as most heroines do. The plot is unique, taking a familiar device and bringing new life to it. Though this book is part of a series, the first volume, it is self-contained so that you can stop with it, but you won't want to. Ms. Lee is an author who shows great promise, and I look forward to the rest of the series.

Reviewed by Amanda Killgore--The Romance Readers Connection



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You're given one chance to travel back to any point in history...where would you go? With several millennia behind us, the options are endless -- one could jet back all the way to the time of Moses to witness the parting of the Red Sea or one could be more prudent with time, choosing to skip back only forty years and perhaps foil the assassination of John Kennedy. For Danielle Coraletti, the heroine of Tiedra Lee's ANOTHER CHANCE IN TIME, time chooses her.

Having accepted her recently murdered father's legacy as a member of the Knights Templar, "Dani" is obliged to continue her father's mission of preserving the current history via time travel. It seems a sinister priest named Lazarus (whose mannerisms and thoughts are anything but Christian) has discovered Merlin's magic mirror -- thought to be legend -- and used it for the purpose of travelling back to 1490 England to dispose of Henry VII and usher in the second age of Arthur (Henry's son and heir). Dani, reluctant to give up the comforts and gender equality of the 21st century, lunges head-first into a different world to stop him.

Her mind, however, is not completely focused upon her task. For one, her uncle/companion on this trip disappears shortly after their arrival in Tudor England, leaving Dani to contend with his escorts without letting any hint of the 21st century slip (a scene involving Dani and some smuggled headache medicine is especially memorable). With handsome Lord Stephen Beauchamp around to invade Dani's thoughts and desires (and vice versa), it's a wonder anything gets done. Her desire for the handsome knight is tainted only by her determination to return home, though it appears destiny may have other plans.

Set vividly against the background of medieval England, ANOTHER CHANCE IN TIME, offers romance fans an intriguing love story mixed with a thrilling battle between good and evil. Dani's observations of and adjustments to the 15th century are written with good humor, and Lord Stephen, blessed with gorgeous blond hair and strong teeth in an age for which such things were rare, is certain to invade the dreams of many a reader as well.



Another Chance in Time: Merlin's Mysteries Series.

While set mostly in late fifteenth century England, this novel opens in the world of A.D. 2000. The heroine, Danielle Coraletti, is well equipped to go time-travelling: a lady policewoman from New York with the skills to survive on the street AND a thorough knowledge as well of the skills of a modern witch (the "wicca") and no, she doesn't have a wart on the end of her nose. In fact, in the looks department she is a five alarm fire !

The plot revolves around a secret agent travelling through time to kill Henry VII and take control of the education of his son, Arthur, who is still a child. Danielle is part of a secret organization whose task is to preserve history from those who would change it.

The descriptions of the life of the different social classes of the Tudor period in history, and of the life of a "Lady" who experiences all this at first hand makes for some amusing scenes. The plot is foiled, and there are some steamy love scenes well worth your attention. While there is very little here about Henry VII, who was a world-class tight-wad and who invented the Star Chamber, a court that ran roughshod over the rights of litigants, there are suggestions that with this volume we have not heard the last of Merlin's Mysteries. There are still villains aplenty at the Tudor court and Danielle and the love of her life are there, at least for the moment, to foil them.

This novel is a skillful blend of romance, historical adventure and science fantasy. If you haven't encountered this sub-genre of the science fiction/fantasy field this would be a good place to begin.

--Dal van Coger--Freelance Reviewer



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