Time Travel Romances
Goddess of the Sea by P.C. Cast
After her plane crashes into the sea, Air Force Sergeant C.C. finds herself occupying the body of the mythic mermaid Undine – and falling for a sexy merman.
Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Devereaux
Abandoned by her lover after a quarrel, Dougless Montgomery is stranded in rural England, but with the sudden appearance of Nicholas Stafford, Earl of Thornwyck – who died centuries ago – a passionate affair begins. Also try Legend.
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Illustrator Simon Morley accepts a government assignment that takes him out of his 20th-century apartment and transports him back to the streets of New York City in 1882. Simon thoroughly enjoys the experience, falls in love and works at keeping his actions from altering the course of history. Also try From Time to Time.
Reflections in the Nile by J. Suzanne Frank
After entering an ancient chamber on an archeological dig, Chloe Kingsley is sent back in time to the year 1452 B.C. to the Egyptian court of Hatshepsut and into the body of a corrupt priestess, where she is now forced to face her new environment and the challenges it holds.
Knight Errant by Rodrigo Garcia Y Robertson
Traveling in Britain near the border between England and Wales, a young American woman is swept back in time to the era of the War of the Roses and falls in love with a young knight, a prince destined to become king. The Robyn Stafford novels continue with Lady Robyn and The White Rose.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
In Scotland with her husband on a second honeymoon after World War II, Claire enters a circle of stones and is transported back to the Battle of Culloden 200 years earlier, where she must marry a Scot to save her husband. Also try the rest of the Outlander series.
Frankly My Dear by Sandra Hill
Tiring of the pretentious world of high fashion, model Selene heads to New Orleans for one last job and is transported back in time to the Old South, where she meets beguiling planter James Baptiste. But, will she be able to leave that time period after finding such a purely sensual man? Also try Tale of Two Vikings.
Love Came Just in Time by Lynn Kurland
This collection of four previously published novellas presents wealthy, masculine heroes and proud, virtuous heroines; lots of feisty banter during courtship; and "exotic" locales and time periods. Also try The Very Thought of You.
My Outlaw by Linda Lael Miller
Young Keighly Barrow looks from the 20th century through the mirror in her grandmother's 19th-century salon and sees Darby Elder, a little boy, and for 20 years they comfort each other, but when Keighly inherits the house, she finds diaries and photographs showing that she married Darby less than a year before his death in 1887.
Beyond the Highland Mist by Karen Moning
Legendary warrior and lover Hawk meets his match when beautiful and headstrong Adrienne de Simone is whisked back in time by a vengeful fairy from modern-day Seattle into the arms of the arrogant 16th-century Scottish rogue. Also try Moning’s other Highlander novels.
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
This debut novel is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was 36 and were married when Clare was 23 and Henry 31. Impossible but true, because Henry is diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets, and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
Ever since his beloved Aimee was killed in a car accident, Ross Wakeman has deliberately put himself at risk, hoping to die. When nothing works, or brings him any closer to Aimee, he moves in with his sister, Shelby, in Comtosook, Vermont. As chance would have it, strange phenomena are plaguing the town, and Ross is drawn into an investigation of a piece of land that local Abenaki Indians claim is an old burial ground. In the process, he meets lovely Lia Beaumont, who has some mysterious connection to sinister goings-on 70 years before.
Time And Again by Nora Roberts
After 23rd-century time traveler Caleb Hornblower crash-lands in our present, he relies on Liberty Stone to help him survive, and his brother, Jacob, heads back into the past to rescue his stranded brother, Caleb, only to find himself falling for Sunbeam Stone.