One Enchanted Evening

Lynn Kurland writes solid, likable heroes and heroines – Persephone and Montgomery were no exception. Pippa is a grounded, down-on-her luck theater costumer with dreams of entering the world of haute couture. She could have made it to England without ghostly interference, so I'm confused as to why Kurland had to involve an apparition from a previous book.

After Pippa seeks to give her career a bump in England at her sister, Tess', medieval shindig, she and her other sister, Cinderella, stumble into a time gate. The location of the gate could have been better; I could see a bunch of people stumbling into another time as they walk across the main castle bridge.

Cindi should have been the main antagonist. She could have continued to cause more glorious trouble for Pippa in the past by allying herself with Montgomery's angry cousins, and then plunged forward in time to be the source of more mischief.

Cinderella's end was still satisfying, and the pacing in the second half of the book quickened as Pippa and Montgomery spent more time together. Even though Montgomery should have had just as much to do as lord of a keep as James McCleod did in A Dance Through Time, Kurland's “okay” books are still ten times better than most books in this genre.