Lost Yesterday
As a newcomer to the romance scene, Jenny Lykins opens with a dramatic time travel set in beautiful Memphis, Tennessee.  Her compelling look at time travel begins in 1996 with a lovely Marin Alexander beginning a new job as curator of an elegant old house that just happens to be haunted by the ghost of the one of the previous owners.  When Marin first sees the ghost of Hunter Pierce, she senses there is something different about him.  When she wakes up after wrecking her car to find herself in his arms, she thinks she's crazy.  Crossing 120 years into the past, she finds she is not Marin Alexander any more, but Mari Sanders.  She is not in her time.  She is not in her life.  She is not in her body.  Hunter, in the meantime, is finding himself beset by females.  First, his mother moves back in after being absent from his life for fifteen years.  Then this young woman he has hired as his social secretary and his mother's companion suffers a terrible carriage accident, obviously causing some type of mental problem.  She thinks she's from the future.  Days later, he finds himself raising a daughter he didn't know he had.  It just seems that females are flocking by herds into his once quiet home.  But poor Hunter finds himself falling in love with Marin, something he had never dreamed would happen to him.  If only she would stop insisting that she comes from the future...which is something that he cannot accept.  He is filled with doubts when he thinks of her with another man, one she said she loved.  It hurts, so he blocks out the love that he knows exists within her.  Marin's dreams are filled with visions of Hunter's young ghost -- would he die young?  Could she bear his loss?  She sees herself in a hospital bed, the vision of her first husband beckoning to her to join him.  She hears the beep of the heart monitor.  Then she is back in Hunter's time, Hunter's world -- living and loving a new family, a new man.  This is a love story that comes down to trust in the future.  Marin and Hunter must face the time-honored fact that love knows no boundaries.  Releasing the future is Marin's fear.  Facing the future is Hunter's demon.  Love must provide them the passage way to live their futures together.My hat is off to Jenny Lykin for her first effort!  Beautifully done and compelling! A time travel romance to drift off with, but you won't be able to sleep until you're finished! Unique look at time travel.  Very different and refreshing.  And such attention to detail!Karen Ellington  --Copyright © 1994-97 Literary Times, Inc.  All rights reserved--FromLiterary Times