Book Review: Keeper Of The Key

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Keeper Of The Key     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Barbara Christopher
Class/Genre:   Romance   Fantasy   Time Travel
ImaJinn, Sept 2001, $13.50, 297 pp.

It is sad there is a fortune stashed somewhere in Beclair house, but Becci and her Aunt Lily are unable to find it. If they don't find it soon they just might have to sell their ancestral home to a developer. Becci's fianc‚ Michael thinks the investment company Ascomp might give Becci a grant so she can open a nursery. All is going smoothly until the day a man called Caleb Harrison mysteriously shows up.

He claims to be from the year 1836 and that he must return there because his Godson Lucas needs him. Becci doesn't believe him but she finds him very convincing and her ancestor's journals do mention a Caleb Harrison. There is a medallion in the house that will let him return to his own time but first he must convince Becci that what he says is truth. Gradually Becci realizes she doesn't love Michael (who has his own hidden agenda) but instead she believes Caleb is her true love. When the time comes for Caleb to journey back to his own time, Becci's heart will truly break.

Barbara Christopher has written a fine time travel romance due in large part to the hero who slowly (very slowly) acclimatizes to the twenty-first century. The romance between the lead couple is sweet even when it seems hopeless while the villain tuns out to be i quite a shocker. Fans of paranormal time travel romances will not want to miss KEEPER OF THE KEY.

Harriet Klausner

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