Review: Consuming, commanding, captivating....
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2013
Claire Manning...intelligent, witty & still mourning the loss of her husband after three years.  She's become a martyr to his memory and has never moved on with her life.  She controls her emotions and she understands loss.Hugh Urquhart is a Laird of Dukedom nobility who is suddenly thrust 250 years into the future.  Hugh in intelligent and learned.  He is an educated intellectual of science, who has seen the world (in his time) and has befriended several remarkable and famous men of history.  He's arrogant (as a Duke would be)...and also humble, kind and polite when those traits and emotions are warranted.  He's a noble in all sense of the title....a commanding and deliciously consuming Scottish gentleman dealing with the reality of his plight.I've always wondered when an author would write about someone being sent into the future, (as opposed to the thousands of time travel stories of characters sent to the past....maybe there are hundreds and I've never landed on them until now..)...  Anyway, it makes sense to me that if this is going to happen, the character being "sent", of course, would be a man.I found this story to be quite entertaining and fun to read, and even though predictable, it still held my attention.  Because Claire has experienced bitter loss, she immediately is compassionate towards Hugh's massive problem and takes it upon herself to endanger herself, and to protect & tutor him...preparing him for a life in the 21st Century.  A life on his own.  Eventually however, we find that Hugh would forsake any life at all to be with, and protect Claire.I love Ms. Fortin's work and her wonderful ability to propel the reader into feeling the angst that her characters are experiencing.  I have to admit however, that I never quite connected with Claire and Hugh.  I don't know if it was because they took so long to act upon their attraction or because the detailed description was lacking or what.  I just don't know.  It was easy to let them go when the story ended.