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This HaBO comes from Lindsay and she’s searching for a bonkers, time-travel historical romance:
I’ve been looking for this one for a while now. I read it about five years ago on my B&N Nook, and have been back through every book in my account and cannot find it, so I’m hoping someone out there knows what it is.
Our heroine, whose name I don’t remember, falls in love with the laird of the castle (maybe early to mid-nineteenth century?). I’m pretty sure his name was Ian/Iain. I don’t remember how, but she somehow gets sucked back in time at the magic castle and winds up in prehistoric Scotland, where she shacks up with a caveman in a village that sounds a lot like Skara Brae. She’s really into Mr. Caveman, but also desperately misses Laird Ian-What’s-His-Name, and when Mr. Caveman has to go to war, he sends her back to the nineteenth century. Obviously, our heroine has some ‘splainin’ to do, and she and the Laird reach a Laird-Caveman/Time-travel-time-share agreement, which both dudes–who never meet– seem weirdly cool with.
Like I said, this one is like a crazysauce-covered sundae, and I would love to find it again.
I’m kind of a sucker for love triangles turning into super cool triads.
So, Outlander with loin clothes.
It’s Son of the Morning by Linda Howard.
Oh wow! Until you got to the bit about the caveman, I was sure it was going to be a Lynn Kurland.
@Rhonda, no, it isn’t.
I have no idea but it sounds interesting!
I think you want Kat Bastion’s Forged in Dreams and Magick. From the blurb:
Isobel MacInnes wakes up in present-day California, lunches in medieval Scotland, and by ten days’ end, falls in love with a man and his country, only to lose them in a heart-wrenching twist of fate . . .
Found in the arms of her second soul mate . . .
Forced to balance the delicate strands of time between two millennia . . .
Shocked by revelations rewriting the very foundations of history . . . of everything.
Isobel, a rising-star archaeology student, is dropped into two ancient worlds without warning . . . or her permission. Her fiery spirit resists the dependency thrust upon her. Amid frustration at her lack of control, she helplessly falls in love. Twice.
She struggles to adjust to the unimaginable demands of two leaders of men–a laird in the thirteenth-century Highlands and a Pict chieftain in a more ancient Scotland. Isobel transforms from an academic, hell-bent on obtaining archaeological recognition, to a woman striving to care for those she loves, and ultimately . . . into a fearless warrior risking everything to protect them.
By “caveman” do you mean Neanderthal? Cro Magnon? Paleolithic? Neolithic? I ask because I am having trouble with this detail, “Then Mr. Caveman has to go to war, he sends her back to the nineteenth century” as I can’t imagine any person who we would today call a caveman grasping the concept of from the future.
Looking forward it having it identified, though
I don’t know if this will help, but this website has a lot of books with time travel in them:
http://www.lallybroch.com/LOL/index2.htm
Could it be a book in the Mists of Ireland Series by Erin Quinn?
It was Forged in Dreams and Magick, by Kat Bastion! Thanks! I am definitely going to have to check out the Linda Howard, too! You all are the best!!
Woot!! Good job bitchery! (and now someone has to write a review of it for SBTB because I know I won’t read the book but I’d read the hell out of a review of it)