Night Lace - Softcover

Merritt, Emma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821752510 ISBN 13: 9780821752517

Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp, 1996

Synopsis

In search of a cure for a new virus, Dr. Beth Balfour journeys to Scotland to search for a cure in a mysterious ancient text, only to find herself tumbling through a rift in time and into the arms of medieval Highlander Lawren mac Galloway. Original.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

A plague in California leads intern Beth Balfour to the Scottish Highlands in pursuit of legends about a similar 12th- century plague cured by a mysterious warlock armed with the elusive herb nightlace. Through a portrait, Beth is transported back to the 12th century and her warlock lover, Lawren. A promising time-travel premise is undermined by spotty pacing (after an overstuffed setup, the story drags) and flat characters (Lawren is a kind of Stepford husband). Small things stand out that might not in a better book: Lawren (not knowing that she is a time-traveler) notes that Beth's medieval incarnation speaks 12th-century Gaelic "without an accent"-meaning exactly what? And Beth's description of the plague, " 'The people aren't sick in the conventional sense of the word. Their first symptoms are acute tiredness, followed by fever and delirium. After a severe rash covers their body, they lapse into unconsciousness' " begs the question of what is "conventional."
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Edition details

• Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0821752510
• ISBN 13: 9780821752517
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320