Book Review: Return of the Rose by Theresa Ragan

Twin sisters are born in Medieval England. One of the infants is dying and is taken to the Witch of Devonshire, who uses supernatural powers to transport the ailing babe to the future. It is the year 1986 when Cathy Hayes, a woman who has lost her child and husband in a car accident, finds the baby at her doorstep, gets her the medical attention she needs, and raises the baby as her own. Morgan grows up in the twentieth century with a mysterious attraction to a hollow suit of armor that stands in the window of her mother's antique store.

Morgan is twenty-four years old when she becomes entangled within the armor's metal plates and is whisked back in time where she is mistaken for Amanda Forrester, a twin sister she knows nothing about. In Amanda's place, Morgan is forced to marry King Henry's favored knight, Derek Vanguard, Lord of Braddock Hall. Abandoned by his mother and having failed as a child to gain his father's love, Derek's heart is as cold as the stone walls of his castle.

In the end, Morgan discovers the true power of love and for the first time in her life she knows where she belongs.(Description from www.amazon.com).

In all honesty, I was looking at amazon while at work (shh) and the front page had an article about Theresa Ragan and the fact that she was a self-published best seller. You can read the article here: http://www.kirkusreviews.com/blog/writing-and-publishing/theresa-ragan-self-published-bestseller-how-i-did-/.  I then looked and saw that her book Return of the Rose was only $2.99 on Kindle and got decent reviews. I love a good time travel book, especially one that is inexpensive!

I enjoyed this book. It was a romantic, medieval, time- travel book that reminded me a little of Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. But not as long and complicated! A light read that doesn't require a whole lot of thinking or analyzing. And sometimes you need that.