time travel

This is the second book in the viking series. this is Rain's story. She is the Daughter of Ruby and Thork from "The Reluctant Viking". Selik, Thorks friend from the first book is the hero.

The book starts off with Ruby and Rain visiting York in modern times. Rain is a doctor and 30yrs old. Ruby's husband Jack who was the look alike for Thork has passed away. They decide to visit because York has set up a museum of old Viking artifacts. When Rain sees one painting of Selik she knows that he is the man who has haunted her dreams for years. She goes back on her own and is transported back in time to the very battle the picture represented. She sees Selik fighting like a mad man and rescues him from the attacking Saxons.

Selik is no longer the handsome man Ruby knew. He is battle scarred and has scars that no one sees on his heart. He takes her captive but lets her treat the injured including a young Tykir, her half brother. Selik doesn't really believe the story she tells about being from the future but after a time he comes to accept it as the truth.

Selik is a wanted man and must take himself off to protect Rain but she won't have any of that. She decides that she is there to save him and save him she shall, even if he doesn't want to be saved. Along the way we get to meet Adam, who I hope gets his own book and we also find out what happens to some old friends.

I really liked the humor that Sandra Hill puts into her tales. The passionate love scenes could burn the paper they are written on. All in all this was a good book and hard to put down.

I just finished this book for the third time and I was thinking what a wonderful story it would be to hear abour the little boy Adam. All grown up and on his own. Then today I noticed that Hill's newest book is about a man named Adam. I can't wait to read it. I've enjoyed all of these books in the viking series. Each time I read the latest it's like catching up on old times with an old friend. Keep up the beautiful work Miss Hill !!!!

Sandra Hill really exploded me into her writing with this one. If you want to get really involved with the characters in a romance then pick up this book and find a quiet corner (believe me, you want to be away from stares when you start laughing out loud and dripping tears on the paper) Each character has a uniqueness that surpasses the flat dimensions of writing and enter you into the world of pure *storytelling*. Rain and Selik collide with a sense of inevitability, not to mention spark and humour, right from the beginning - and don't let up.

Along with a sometimes surprising plot-line Ms Hill has given us all what we really want - a love that sizzles, heroes that stick in our mind, and a bucket-load of laughs. Really, how could anyone refuse that??!