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This HaBO comes from Melis, who is trying to find this time travel romance:
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The heroine goes to interview a psychiatrist. She’s skeptical of hypnotism. However, she gets hypnotized by accident and “goes” back in time where she meets the hero.
After coming back to the present, she revisits the psychiatrist to be hypnotized again, to be with the man she loves/learn what happens in her story. In the end, she has to choose which world she’ll live in.
I read it in the early 90’s and believe the cover was dark blue.
I am very curious about this accidental hypnotism.
Lady of Hay
by Barbara Erskine
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Maybe Remembrance by Jude Deveraux? Published in 1994 and one cover variant was solid blue with silver lettering. But plot didn’t feature time travel so much as past-life regression, where the heroine was trying to figure out what went wrong with her past romance(s) with the hero and how to fix it.
Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine, maybe? It’s definitely got time travel and hypnotism.
“Hypnotism causes time travel” immediately had me thinking of L.J. Smith’s Soulmate. It isn’t the right book because the details are way different after the hypnotism part, but the heroine is hypnotized and learns that she’s been reincarnated and killed multiple times by someone who looks a lot like the hero, who turns out to be a vampire.
I also immediately thought of Lady of Hay. The heroine is doing research and hypnosis sends her to the 12th century. There are odd links between the present and the past with other characters in the book, if I remember correctly.
This sounds very familiar. If it’s not Lady of Hay, perhaps it’s a book by Barbara Wood.
Aw, L.J. Smith! Twilight before there was Twilight, but with far better vampires. (As an adolescent, I loved her series with a Loki-ish Norse anti-hero, and a heroine with eyes like green pine needles.)
I know this isn’t it, but the accidental hypnosis reminds me of the movie On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. There’s no time travel, but there are memories of past–and future–lives. Anyone else remember it?
@mem I don’t know if Remembrance is the book Melis is looking for, but thanks for mentioning it, because I opened a sample on the library website and before I knew it I was six chapters in. I’m finding it really interesting; it’s really different from what I usually read.
@Susan, I remember On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Wasn’t Streisand’s character called Daisy? (I just checked and that is true. I’ve impressed myself!) Thanks for the memory.
Thanks HABO_ Lady of Hay is the book!! Can’t wait to re-read, and to check the other books mentioned. M