Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC. I love a time travel story and this one was so cute. Definitely recommend if you love cowboys and time travel in your romances ❤

Time of the Rose by Bonita Clifton

A bit of a slow going time travel romance. 18th century gunslinger Colt transported in a storm meets a modern times Madison again the storm returns but takes them both back to the 18th century. Where the story really does begin and shows all the difficulties of a modern woman in a bygone era entails making and it an interesting read if slow start. 3.5/5

I love a good time travel story, and this book kept me rapt and turning page after page. Colt was the perfect match for Maddy, and now I want an old-fashioned cowboy of my own.

Nice but I not into sci-fi and time travels my error to ask for rid really nice it is not you it is me
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This is a traditional (originally written in 1994) romance with suspense and time travel complications.
Colton Chase is a gunslinger on a ten year vendetta to find and kill the man who murdered his parents. Recent cattle rustling brings Colton home to the family ranch that is being managed by his angry, dilatory, younger brother. Colton needs some downtime to regroup. He rides to a favorite spot where he picks an unusual rose. He is caught in a wild storm and when he and his horse ride out of the mist, he discovers a new town that he didn’t know existed… because it didn’t in his time.

Madison is a twenty-first-century career woman who has invested her energy in her travel agency since her divorce from her cheating husband. She and her staff are visiting Jackson Hole, Wyoming for business. She is startled when she steps in front of a large horse and looks up into the eyes of an elderly cowboy who appears to be straight out of the historical west. The two are drawn to each other and Colton convinces Madison to spend a day out with him. She begins to see a young, rugged, handsome cowboy rather than an elderly character. Colton is confused by his circumstances, but Madison fears he is suffering from dementia since he claims to be from 1878.

Colton is set on returning to his time and never expected Madison to accidentally follow him. Once she is there, Colton is ready to claim her as his wife. Madison isn’t so quick to commit to a backward time and she is still reluctant to let a man have any control in her life. Colton agrees to help Madison return to her time but first he has to follow a hot clue for his vengeance. Madison fears for his safety but in trying to help she gets captured. Can Colton save her and if he does will she agree to stay or still want to return to her own time, leaving him behind?

The time travel romance hit all the right genre buttons: Historical Fiction, Romance, Sci Fi & Fantasy. It is a romance with nice historical detail, a believable time travel trigger, and well-developed characters. I call this a ‘traditional’ romance as it contains some of the cliché’ descriptions of the sexual encounters that I associate with romance from the 1990s. It was awkward to me, but it was still a nice story and easy read. I recommend this to fans of time travel romance who wouldn’t mind the older language and sexual descriptions.

Source: NetGalley 2020.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a digital copy of this book.

This slowburn (heavy on the burn) romance novel about timetravellers, draws you in and holds on tight all the way through.

Our 1878 gunslinger Colton gets transported to the present by a storm. Here he appears as an old man, who Madison gets fascinated by and feels sorry for in equal measure. When the storm returns to bring Colton back to his own time (and young looks). Madison accidentally follows. Now it’s her turn to be stuck in a time not her own. And it’s here that their love story truly unfolds.

The book doesn’t gloss over the difficulties of living in the past as a modern woman with all it entails.
Not only is it a wonderfull time travelling romance story, but it also contains everything that makes a good western.

This book is for lovers of timetravel, slowburn and good old fashion westerns.

A lovely time traveling romance from the modern day 2014 to 100 years in the past in the wild west. I really enjoyed this book, the author really took her time to build up the world around the two characters, it was beautifully written, the characters were easy to relate too and the storyline was interesting and kept you on your toes.
Thank you for giving me a copy for an honest review.

I tried to get into this story, but I found I just didn’t care enough about the characters or story to continue on.

Thank you to Cozy Corner Press for providing this arc via Netgalley!
I really tried giving this book a fair chance, but right from the start, looking at its cover, I had absolutely no will to read it. It felt like a chore from the beginning to the end - I didn't like the plot, the characters or the writing style.
Besides, the fact that she almost instantly fell in love with what looked like an 80 year man was just too creepy to me.