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HaBO: Time Travel Fountain Falling

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This HaBO is from Shawna, who is looking for this time travel romance:

I’m trying to recall a time travel romance novel about a modern-day guy who goes to England for his cousin’s wedding (for some reason, I’m remembering a ridiculous nickname for the cousin like “Cubby”?), and I think he flies to London with a materialistic, status-obsessed girlfriend he doesn’t see a future with. They arrive in London in a hard rain, and while the cab takes them to his cousin’s estate, the protagonist thinks he sees a raven flying alongside the car, but convinces himself he was imagining it with the rain. At his cousin’s house, he falls into a fountain and gets sucked back to (I think) Regency England where he meets a woman named something like Melissandre who is in the process of running away from her loathsome fiancé, the heir to a marquis, I think. They end up walking to London to beg her aunt for assistance in getting out of her engagement, only to have her aunt tell them she’s been compromised and they have to marry. She’s disappointed that she has to marry a man without any $ or title, but they discover from his memories that the protagonist fell into that same fountain as a young child *in the past* and was found wandering the grounds in modern times clutching a chess piece, the modern-day family there took him in and adopted him, and he is actually the long-lost rightful heir returned to his original time period!

There are a couple other details I remember, like the protagonist eventually remembers he had a pet raven that went everywhere with him as a boy and the loathsome heir, his actual cousin, once burned him on the hand with a wax melter stamp of some kind, saying that all future marquises had to wear a brand. There may also have been a memory of the cousin trying to stab the protagonist with a fencing sword and he missed & ended up stabbing a painting in the hallway instead? And the missing boy and his tutor had a game where the tutor would hide the chess piece and the boy would find it; the boy was reaching for the chess piece on the fountain when he fell in and disappeared from his time. The old marquis is convinced by these surfacing memories that the protagonist is his long-lost son.

Seriously, how is it I can remember practically the entire plot of the book and can’t remember the title or author?!?

So much detail! Let’s help Shawna out!

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  1. Emily P. says:

    The Imposter by Elaine Fox!
    The man in the fountain. Melisande St. Clair knew who she was and what she wanted, and when Flynn Patrick stepped out of the water and into her life, Melisande knew that his was the face of which she’d dreamt. But despite his mesmerizing blue eyess, the man was not an aristocrat – and therefore not a fitting match. Worse, when she was forced to travel with the hansome stranger, he claimed he was from another time and made suggestions that were hardly proper for a nineteenth-century lady. Then though she’d believe no one could mistake the handsome Yankee for an English gentleman, the Duke of Merestun swore that Flynn was his long-lost son. Suddenly, Flynn seemed a prince and 0-all that Melisande desired lay within reach. But what was the truth? All Melisande knew was that she sensed no atifice in his touch-and as she fought to remain aloof to the passion that burned in his firey kiss, she wondered which ofthem was truly … The Imposter.

  2. Amanda says:

    @Emily: DING DING! Shawna also passed along the Old Skool cover to show us:

    The Imposter cover

  3. chacha1 says:

    Wow, that *is* Old Skool! Did he step out of the fountain naked?? I mean, if that guy stepped out of a fountain when I was running away from a loathsome heir, I’d probably walk to London with him too.

    Also: the bitchery has been FAST lately.

  4. Arijo says:

    Oh oh, I recognize the cover model! I liked him, much more than Fabio. He was on a lot of covers, and he often had a little smile lurking… *sigh*

  5. Lynn Pauley says:

    I much prefer the Old Skool to the e-book cover — sorry, but the guy on that cover just does not do a thing for me. However, I like time travels and the story sounds interesting enough that I will pay the $3.99 and download. https://www.amazon.com/Impostor-Elaine-Fox-ebook/dp/B00BPF6CS8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1620782249&sr=8-1

  6. spinster.revival says:

    The ebook cover is pretty bad, but I love that there’s actually an ebook of this on Amazon. The plot above sounds fascinating to me, so I’m trying to convince myself to spend the $3.99 on it (I’ve been trying to limit purchases if possible).

  7. angstriddengoddess says:

    @spinter.revival
    “limit purchases” = good thing.
    But… on books?
    scratches head, puzzled
    I’m not sure I understand that concept.

  8. Dorothea says:

    The cover tells us that the same author also wrote Pray Love, Remember which with a little tweaking of the punctuation sounds like an Elizabeth Gilbert knock-off, or one of those framed inspirational wall arts.

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