Title: A Train Through Time
Author: Bess McBride
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Line: Recent Historical Vintage Rose (time travel)
Length: 200 pages Sweet
Release 8/22/2008
ISBN 1-60154-301-8

Blurb:

College teacher Ellie Standish thinks she's on a sleek modern train heading to a conference on women's studies in Seattle, but she awakens from a night's doze to find herself on a bizarre historical train full of late Victorian era reenactors who refuse to come out of character. When the leader of the group—one handsome, green-eyed Robert Chamberlain—finally convinces her the date is indeed 1901, a skeptical Ellie decries any eccentric theories of time travel and presumes she is smack dab in the middle of a very interesting historical dream. She turns the directorial reins of her dream over to one smitten and willing Robert, only to realize that dreams cannot last forever. Someday she must wake up to reality, though Ellie no longer has any idea what reality is. She only knows that Robert must play an important part in her future. But how can he...if he's only a figment of her imagination or worse yet...a man who belongs to an era long past?

Review:

Bess McBride brings the past to life in her fabulous rendition of a time travel story where love conquers all. No wonder Ellie doesn’t want to wake up when she thinks she’s dreaming. Robert is the kind of sweet, sensitive guy most women truly do only dream about. So, I suppose, if that’s what it takes for Ellie to be with the love of her life, well, then, so be it. For the majority of the story, Ellie believes she’s simply in a well-developed dream, but Robert doubts it. He refuses to accept the non-reality of that concept. He’s living in a time where people are writing their own stories of far-fetched possibilities such as time travel, and when Ellie starts talking strange, using words he’s never heard, and referring to things yet to come, he insists she’s come back in time, and she’s just for him. She argues she’s asleep and will wake up, or she could suddenly slip back into her original time. Therefore, she doesn’t want to fall in love with him or allow him to fall in love with her and break both their hearts.

Too late. They tumble head over heels, proving the heart wants what the heart wants, and who, no matter the problems, even a phenomenon that can’t be overcome…or can it?