Ladies Prefer Rogues Anthology
February 2, 2010
Time Travel Romance
Paperback, 368 Pages
Berkley
Reviewed by Amanda

Man from the Moon by Janet Chapman

This charming story is about Isobel, a doctor of veterinary medicine and what happens when a band of warriors from the future mistake her for an M.D. The men in this story have been sent back in time to save mankind from an event that will happen in the future and they are the only hope of success.

While on this mission one of their party is injured and is in urgent need of medical attention. This leads to a case of misunderstandings on the part of the Moon Man sent for help and her arrives back with Isobel who is their only hope.

As with all if Janet Chapman’s heroines, Isobel is a strong accomplished and self sufficient female who has bad choice in men. But during her time with the Moon men she finds herself believing their story and in turn falling for her patient, she vows to do anything she can to help them on their mission and try to keep her heart in tact; will she succeed in helping the future of mankind and finding her one true love? Or will she have to make the ultimate sacrifice?

I loved this story and it left me hoping that there will be more from the moon men at a future date.

Tomorrow is Another Day by Sandra Hill

Having never read anything by Sandra Hill before I was unsure what to expect but was excited at the prospect of a new to me author. Tomorrow is another day had echoes of Gone with the Wind to me and that was before the reference was made in the story.

Marguerite Baptiste runs a highly successful internet dating service for the elite. Larry Wilson is a navy SEAL whose friends decided it would be fun to set a profile up on Marguerite’s website and set him up with someone nice. Their plan backfire’s slightly when Larry is being overrun with women who want him and he doesn’t have any interest in. Despite Marguerite’s best efforts with removing Larry from the site he is still being stalked. Between Larry’s friends and Marguerite a plan is hatched to solve the problem, but before it can happen Marguerite finds herself thrown back in time to 1870 and things are very different all except for Laurent Duvall. Laurent looks suspiciously like Larry and Marguerite takes off after him and invites herself to his home and into his life. Pitying her Laurent agrees and allows her to come to his plantation. Marguerite slowly gains access to more than just his home and theirs is a relationship that blossoms through time.

I really enjoyed this story and I felt that this was the one out of the whole anthology that had all the loose ends tied up at the end. Sandra Hill I think will be a new author for me to enjoy.

Drowning sea by Veronica Wolff

This was another new to me author and this story I think is my favourite. It had me crying in parts and I thought mid way through it was my least favourite of all.

Scotsman Iain MacNab is a peat boy and has noticed from afar the beauty of the lairds daughter, but he doesn’t know her name. While cutting the bog one day he hears a lady in distress and hurries to investigate knowing that the bog can suck a person down into its depths at a surprising speed. When he crests the hill he finds the lairds daughter caught in the bog. Like any decent man he recues her and brings her safely home. While carrying her home they agree to meet at the travelling stones the next day as they both feel a yearning for the other. They meet like this for a number of months and then the impossible happens events occur that tear them apart maybe forever. Cut to twenty years later and Iain is a sea captain and a notorious pirate.

I can say little more about this story without giving spoilers other than read it. I hope you won’t regret it!

Sixteen Decades by Trish Jensen

This story made me smile the whole way through. Our heroine, Miss Margaret has been thrown forward in time from 1870 to 2010 sixteen decades. Our hero is the town sheriff who on a missing persons call to the local brothel discovers a young woman has been hit over the head and trussed into the shed by someone called the sheriff.

The story revolves around Margaret getting to know the ways and the cultures of the 21^st century and discovering that the role of women has greatly changed from her time.

I really enjoyed this story and Margaret is a character you can’t help but love and laugh along with.

All in all I thoroughly enjoyed my reading of Ladies Prefer Rouges and I would urge anyone who is a fan of time travel romance to dip into this anthology there is something for everyone in it.

Rating: 4/5

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