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When twenty-something Wall Street analyst Kate Wilson attracts the notice of the legendary Julian Laurence at a business meeting, no one’s more surprised than she is. Julian’s relentless energy and his extraordinary intellect electrify her, but she’s baffled by his sudden interest. Why would this handsome British billionaire "Manhattan’s most eligible bachelor” pursue a pretty but bookish young banker who hasn’t had a boyfriend since college?
The answer is beyond imagining . . . at least at first. Kate and Julian’s story may have begun not in the moneyed world of twenty-first-century Manhattan but in France during World War I, when a mysterious American woman emerged from the shadows of the Western Front to save the life of Captain Julian Laurence Ashford, a celebrated war poet and infantry officer.
Now, in modern-day New York, Kate and Julian must protect themselves from the secrets of the past, and trust in a true love that transcends time and space.
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I enjoyed the first half of this book, I liked the set-up and the relationships and it was great fun. However, as the resolution was happening it fell apart for me. I found the characters' actions ultimately annoying and a bit too unbelievable considering how they acted through the first 70%.
Comparisons to Time Traveler's Wife are way off base - this book has 10 times the cheese but none of the style. Nevertheless in its own way it was enjoyable, if you don't mind a completely perfect hero who calls the heroine “little minx” and an allegedly independent heroine who nevertheless spends most of the book under the hero's protection. If you can make it through the endless scenes of the H&H gazing into each others' eyes and murmuring sweet nothings, the final 100 pages that wrap up the loose ends of the time travel plot are actually pretty effective (as long as you don't examine the logic too closely). Not a bad debut.
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