TRUST IN LOVE

Author: Sarah Winn ISBN: 9780759936621 7/2007 HISTORICAL Publisher: HARD SHELL WORD FACTORY
Time Period: Time Travel, Texas 1867 & Present

Frontier schoolmarm, Eliza Scoggins, is willing to give her life to protect her students during an Indian attack. An overly sympathetic angel is so touched by her sacrifice that he removes the arrows from her body and whisks her to a modern hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Eliza awakens in a strange new world where no one believes her story. The angel prompts her to pretend she has amnesia. Conscientious police detective, Jeff Palmer, is sent to investigate the stabbing of a woman dressed in a period costume and left at the emergency room door. She claims to have amnesia, but he can find no clues to her identity. He tries to help her build a new life by introducing her to his sister and a possible career as a fashion model, but even as his feelings for her grow, Jeff suspects the silver-haired beauty is hiding a dark secret from her past.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

Eliza Scoggins' last memory before waking in a strange place where women wear pants and the rules of modesty don't seem to apply is of a Comanche raid on her schoolhouse. She's been badly injured, and when she wakes she finds she's not in Heaven, as she first imagines, or in 1867, either. Somehow Eliza's world has changed-drastically.

TRUST IN LOVE is a good, solid time travel story. Eliza is convincing in her reactions to the modern world and the growing affection between she and Jeff is heartwarming to watch. I especially liked Mortimer, the fallible guardian angel whose eagerness began Eliza's unusual journey. The ending is sweet, appropriate to the story, although the name change bit felt overdone. But that's a small, small detail, and easily overlooked when the rest of this novel is considered. TRUST IN LOVE is highly entertaining, and Sarah Winn has done an excellent job of bringing the past into the present.

Kay James