August 1999

In my first time travel romance, a shy, awkward woman learns to be a hero to the man who saved her one too many times...

A mystical whirlwind takes former lovers,

the reluctant skydiver Cora Talmadge & the surfer dude Apache Adrian de Vargas,

from modern day Arizona into the past...

secrets are revealed

enemies and unexpected friendships arise

and life or death hinges on Cora's ability to be a hero...

 

 

 

If she can just convince the man she used to love,

and loves still, that no matter where he came from,

or who his father happens to be,

he is a man of the future -

not a man of the past.

Adrian wears a beautiful eagle feather in his long, black hair

Cora wears a chicken feather, but pretends it's from an eagle.

Adrian might not find a new pair of Timberlands in 1872 Arizona

and there's no snowboarding nearby,

but the past offers one thing the future denied him...

Cora at his side, trapped out of time -

his for the taking...

Because what a modern man dare not do,

a Man of the Past dares attempt.
 

 

 

Reviews:

n 2000 Arizona, Bronx resident Cora Talmedge visits her friend Jenny, who takes her skydiving at the Nomadic Adventurer School of Skydiving. A frightened Cora plans to back out until her guide turns out to be her former lover Adrian de Vargas. In the air, Adrian asks Cora why she deserted him while they traveled in India together over seven years ago. However, before she can respond, a strange whirlwind sucks the two of them inside before they land on some grass. To their shock, Phoenix seems to have disappeared.

As Adrian and Cora aimlessly wander, they meet several white men who insist the year is 1869. Soon, members of the Tonto Apache tribe find the confused duo and escort them back to their camp where the chief insists...(deleted so as not to give away my brilliant plot) As Adrian seems to comfortably fit with the tribe and the era, Cora, dubbed Talks Much, must decide between a love of a lifetime or a twenty-first century lifestyle.

FREE FALLING is an enjoyable time travel romance due to the reaction of the lead protagonists to their trip. The exhilarating story line includes some mystical elements that add to the overall flavor. The lead characters are a dynamic duo and the support cast provides local color. Stobie Piel provides her fans with an appealing novel that will garner her many new readers.

Great! I don't remember who wrote this review! I think it was Harriet Klausner. I have no clue why I put these in without the reviewer's name. I NEVER think ahead!