- Mass Market Paperback: 313 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks (April 15 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312965095
- ISBN-13: 978-0312965099
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,356,807 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Tracy Hill, the heroine of Kathleen Kane's This Time for Keeps, has the worst luck. In 1998, she is prematurely killed by a bowling-ball accident while on a date. Through the centuries, she has been killed eight times; each was a freak accident involving the man she loved. Tired of this endless pattern, she makes a deal with the Resettlement Committee in an attempt to ensure a better outcome in her next life. Tracy bargains for wealth and health, but there's no chance for love. She also asks to keep the memories of her past lives: "If you can't guarantee that I won't fall in love, the least you can do is to let me remember why I shouldn't," she implores.
The Committee sends Tracy into the body of a woman living on a Montana ranch in 1875. When she meets the blue-eyed foreman, Seth Murdoch, she is happy to find that she isn't attracted to the rugged cowboy type--at least at first. Sparks develop between them, causing Tracy to have some very unsettling dreams regarding the man she has loved throughout time. Try as they might, Tracy and Seth are unable to deny the desire they have for each other. The two must decide if they dare take a chance on love. For both it is a big gamble, but the outcome is worth the ride. It is fun to watch Tracy, a modern Los Angeles woman, struggle with 1800s Montana, and Seth's reaction to the modern Tracy is just as entertaining. Kane has delivered a novel with enough twists to keep the angels enthralled, if they're watching.
From Publishers Weekly
For Tracy Hill, it happens every time: every previous life has been cut short?usually in some ignominious way (most recently by a freak bowling accident) and usually "because she was traipsing around after some man." Fed up, Tracy bargains with the heavenly Resettlement Committee for a long life spared from love's complications. The committee has other plans. In a quantum leap, Tracy awakens as ranch owner Nora Wilding in 1875 Montana, and author Kane's (A Pocketful of Paradise) inventive romantic conflict spirals through vividly captured and revealing centuries-old (previous life) memories. Begrudging the backward time warp, Nora/Tracy flippantly addresses her foreman Seth Murdoch as Clint, Roy or Kemosabe until she realizes she must entice this honorable hunk or die a virgin?again. From there on it's a lively plot of all-out seduction with Kane's witty dialogue and fine portrayal of the head-strong, hot-to-trot heroine and the equally stubborn cowboy.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE...,
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This review is from: This Time For Keeps (Mass Market Paperback)
As a huge fan of "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon, I was drawn to this book because of its time travel theme. There, the similarity stops. While "Outlander" is a well-written book that engages the reader with both its plot and characters, this book is simply no "Outlander". This is, however, a brash and breezy book time travel romance from which those who are fond of this genre will derive a modicum of enjoyment. Although short on character development, the plot is somewhat interesting, even though the ending is predictable.
Apparently our erstwhile heroine, Tracy Hill, has a penchant for coming to an early and ignominious end in every life that she has lived. It appears, however, that in her ninth life she will have an opportunity to right what has gone wrong before. Heaven's "Resettlement Committee" has decreed that she will be able to have health and wealth in her new life and live to the ripe old age of ninety-five. She will also have the ability to remember her past lives. What Tracy does not bargain for is being sent to live in the past in a remote cattle ranch in 1875 Montana. Written with humor and quite funny at times, Tracy brings her modern day sensibilities to bear in her new life, where she is reborn into the body of a very-ill woman named Nora. Upon Nora's amazing recovery, she takes Montana by storm and by surprise. She gets to know the two men in Nora's life, the strong and protective Seth, the foreman of her ranch, and the more voluble and somewhat possessive Richard, Nora's supposed fiancé. The new Nora finds herself drawn to Seth almost against her will, while Richard doesn't quite seem to be able to move the earth under her feet. Interlaced with these romantic meanderings is a little mystery that every discerning reader will be able to figure out with little trouble.
4.0 out of 5 stars
9 Lives,
By Lealing (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: This Time For Keeps (Mass Market Paperback)
Tracy Hill has travelled through the centuries and has lived eight lives. Her last life was ended abruptly in 1998 by a freak bowling accident. In Heaven the "Resettlement Committee" has decreed that she must return to Earth to finish her "time" there. This time Tracy has stated that she will only return on her terms. She wants to be the same age 27, female, wealthy, healthy and does not want "love" this time around as it has been the cause of all her previous deaths. Most of her wishes are granted and she returns to live the remainder of her life. The only problem is she didn't specify a time and wakes up in the guise of Nora Wilding, the owner of a cattle ranch in Montana in 1875. She further discovers that she is engaged to be married to one Richard Bonner but that she is wildly attracted to her foreman, Seth Murdoch, "a young Clint Eastwood, minus the charm." Kathleen Kane writes historical romances set in America's wild west at the end of the 1800s, with a paranormal twist. If you like rugged cowboys with dark hair and blues eyes and if you like your heroines with lots of guts and a sharp tongue, you will enjoy reading her books. Nora's character was fun, as we could see the wild west through her modern eyes and Seth made a gallant hero. The sub plot kept ticking along, although you will have worked out the scam at the beginning of the book. An enjoyable read on the whole. Lealing
3.0 out of 5 stars
sweet book,
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This review is from: This Time For Keeps (Mass Market Paperback)
Well I have to admit what drew me to this book in the first place. The fact that our heroine has had 8 lives and that the last just ended. The cause, a bowling ball. Now I don't normally think of a bowling ball as a deadly weapon but after I read this book I certainly kept my eye on the next person to bowl. Anyway this story is a combo Time-Travel/Reincartion romance. Tracy, the heroine has lived 8 lives and been killed horribly in every one of them. She is now given a 9th chance but she's now been thrown back in time to 1875. Now Tracy has had it. She is very aware of her past lives and how they ended. She is ticked and demands that in her next life she have health,wealth and absolutely no chance for love. Love being the cause of all of her past death's. The "Resettlement Committee" in heaven agrees and they place her in the body of a woman in 1875 Montana. Now she has to deal with the fact that she a modern woman is now not allowed to many things just because she is a woman and also deal with the very attractive Seth Murdoch. Seth has only known Tracy as the sickly woman named Nora. Suddenly she goes from her death bed to wonderous health. Aslo she has become a very strong, independant, beautiful woman who knocks him off his feet. He finds hims self confused by her ways but also very drawn to her. Tracy/Nora, who wanted no chance at love now finds herself dreaming of Seth and wants his love. Together they must overcome obsticals in order to be together. I enjoyed this story and probably will buy more from this author. Its filled with humor and sweetness. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to read a story that will make them smile and laugh and feel great after.
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