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Time Traveler romance books

Flung across the centuries — and finding the love she was never supposed to meet.

The time-traveler heroine is swept out of her own era and into another, and the romance is charged with the wonder and ache of a love that shouldn't be possible across the gulf of time. Most often she's a modern woman tumbled into the past — the Highlands, the Regency, the ancient world — where she must adapt fast, hide what she knows, and reckon with falling for a man centuries out of her reach. The fantasy is destiny itself, two people drawn together against the impossible logic of when they were born.

She's a beloved fixture of time-travel and paranormal romance, overlapping with the fish-out-of-water type as she navigates an unfamiliar age. The romance often turns on the heartbreaking question of which time she can build a life in, and on whether she'll choose the past or her present.

For readers who love destiny, wonder, and a love that conquers time itself, the time-traveler heroine is romance at its most sweeping.

What to expect
  • A heroine swept across the centuries into impossible love
  • A fixture of time-travel and paranormal romance
  • Destiny, wonder, and fish-out-of-water adaptation
  • The bittersweet question of which time to call home
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