Review: Return of the Rose by Theresa Ragan

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Book Blurb

Twin sisters are born in Medieval England. One of the infants is dying and is taken to the Witch of Devonshire, who uses supernatural powers to transport the ailing babe to the future. It is the year 1986 when Cathy Hayes, a woman who has lost her child and husband in a car accident, finds the baby at her doorstep, gets her the medical attention she needs, and raises the baby as her own. Morgan grows up in the twentieth century with a mysterious attraction to a hollow suit of armor that stands in the window of her mother’s antique store.

Morgan is twenty-four years old when she becomes entangled within the armor’s metal plates and is whisked back in time where she is mistaken for Amanda Forrester, a twin sister she knows nothing about. In Amanda’s place, Morgan is forced to marry King Henry’s favored knight, Derek Vanguard, Lord of Braddock Hall. Abandoned by his mother and having failed as a child to gain his father’s love, Derek’s heart is as cold as the stone walls of his castle.

In the end, Morgan discovers the true power of love and for the first time in her life she knows where she belongs.

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Toot's Review by Stacy Sabala

Morgan Hayes lives with her adoptive mother and helps in the antique shop she owns.  She has an obsession with the medieval armor in the shop.  She is determined to find out everything she can.  The latest information she found was it belonged to the Earl of Kensington and he died in an ambush looking for his love.

Her life changes when she somehow gets sent back in time.  She ends up right in the medieval time the armor came from.  She is also mistaken for Lady Amanda.  The Lady Amanda who is the betrothed of Derek Vanguard, Lord of Braddock.  He is not happy to have a betrothed and doesn’t trust women at all.  He refuses to believe her story and expects the worst of her.  Even when she saves the castle, he can’t believe who she truly is.

I like time traveling books and this didn’t disappoint.  Morgan is a great character from 2011 sent to 1444.  Culture shock but she seemed to settle in quickly.  I like the twist the author added with the true story of her parents.  It hadn’t been a one way trip.  I also liked how she won over all those in Castle Braddock.  The author made her seem like a breath of fresh air.  She played with the children.  She was smart and witty.  She put up with a lot of mixed messages from Derek and animosity from others.  Her determination to win them over was fun to watch.

Of course Derek was a character I wanted to shake.  I understand how he got that way but come on enough is enough.  His stubbornness was over the top and he refused to listen to anyone else.  It drove me crazy.  Morgan was a stronger woman than me.  I think I would have given up before she did.  It was a great read though.  I give it a 4 out of 5.

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