This is a fun, thoroughly enjoyable read with all the best ingredients - action, suspense, romance and a dash of time travel or, as the publishers call it, ''time slip''.
The novel takes you from 1970s London as Jane Granger struggles with her feelings for fiance Will, a geophysicist from the United States, before taking you back to 1715 as the Earl of Nithsdale joins the doomed Jacobite rebellion for Scottish independence.
After a tragedy leaves Will's life in the balance, Jane heads off on a desperate quest to Ayers Rock in Australia to save him and ends up in the past.
There she decides the only way to save Will is to save the Earl from the Tower of London after he has been tried for treason and sentenced to be beheaded.
In the process you get a glimpse into early Georgian life through the eyes of a modern woman living it: the transition from toilets to chamberpots is not the easiest to get used to; nor is doing self-defence moves in just a petticoat, sans underwear.
- Rebecca Fox is an ODT Dunedin reporter.
