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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780425181973
ISBN number: 0425181979
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 448
Printing Date: October 01, 2001
Publishing house: Berkley
Release Date: October 10, 2001
Sale Popularity Level: 260621
Studio: Berkley
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'I dare you to read a 'Kurland' story and not enjoy it!' (Heartland Critiques)
In this exquisite new ghost story-set in a castle on the English moors-a handsome American falls in love with a beautiful Scottish woman. There's just one problem: she's been dead for centuries...
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Betrayed by her new husband, lovely Scottish bride Iolanthe MacLeod dies by the sword in the fall of 1382 in a landlocked keep on the English moors, far from the sea she loves. Doomed to haunt the castle, little does she know that it will be nearly seven hundred years before the man of her dreams will come to rescue her. When Thomas MacLeod MacKinnon appears in 2001, Iolanthe isn't quite prepared to deal with her feelings for this modern man. And Thomas, although he grows accustomed to seeing and talking to ghosts in the castle, is stunned to realize that he's fallen in love with one of them.
Beautiful and desirable though Iolanthe is, he can't hold a spirit in his arms. Thomas has to find a way to go back in time and prevent her death--and he knows just how to accomplish the feat. Now if only saving the young Scotswoman's life proves to be as easy--and if he can rescue her, he'll be faced with having to convince Iolanthe that she loves him in another time and place. No medieval knight in shining armour ever had a quest quite this tough.
My Heart Stood Still is a tale that's absorbing, adventurous, and downright delightful. Kurland deftly juggles a cast of ghostly secondary characters with wonderful humour and a dry wit that makes for hilarious moments without losing the warmth and emotion of a compelling love story. All in all, an excellent novel. --Lois Faye Dyer
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A hundred pages could have been snipped out and the story would have been a better read. It was easy to see why Iolanthe would be attracted to Thomas, afterall, she was a ghost and had never received any such attentions from a man before. But, I didn't really see why Thomas fell so quickly and completely in love with Iolanthe.
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I so much wanted to enjoy this book and the blurb on the back sounded terrific. I gave it a fair go - up to page 86 but I'm sorry to say it's childish and unreadable. I really hate romance novels which go out of their way to be 'zany'. They hardly ever pull it off and this one is no exception. After a very well written and exciting prologue, it suddenly moves into modern day with a ghost of a medieval Scot wearing Mickey Mouse ears. That's just silly. Then we hear about ghosts drinking ale, threatening to run people through with swords(er hello... they're ghosts!)and the ghosts of old men getting up to all kinds of zany things. Oh and the ghosts appeared to have this major social network. I couldn't help cringing. I also lost sympathy for the heroine, especially how her name was such a controversial mystery. Whoopee. I just couldn't get what the big deal was. Oh and when she very first meets the hero he hardly says two words to her and she immediately blabs her closely guarded secret (why was it such a secret I asked myself), then dramatically bursts into tears cursing him with 'And damn you for making me tell you'. It just reeked of overacting! I barely got past that bit. Sorry, I can suspend disbelief if the writing is any good but this was just insipid. If only the style of the prologue was kept up. It felt like it was written by a totally different person.
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I love clean romance! But there has to be good kissing in it too. This book had a great example of a real love story you know...romance based on self sacrifice, forgiveness and charity not a lot of lusting etc.. I just really wish there were a few more kisses that's all. otherwise great story. By the way, I disagree that this is the same story as Stardust of Yesterday.
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This is Thomas McKinnon's story. He has done everything during his lifetime, gotten mulitple degrees, earned a fortune, climbed mountains, bought and sold companies, but he feels something is missing from his life. He would like a wife and family, but seems to choose the wrong women. He found his last socialite fiance with his best friend. He dreams of a castle and when his sister shows him a picture of a castle in Scotland, he knows its the same one and buys it. He decides to go to Scotland and renovate his castle but comes across some opposition...a historical preservation group is staging protests at his gates, but even worse he finds it haunted. Thomas has always had the "sight" and now he is seeing not only the Highland ghosts of his ancestors but the ghosts of some Highlanders that are inhabiting his castle and want him to leave it as it is. Then he meets the ghost in charge, a beautiful woman. Thomas immediately falls in love with her and decides to woo her. He promises not to make any changes she doesn't like and says he will fix up her own special room that will belong to her only. He knows her name and when he speaks it she gets very upset .
Hundreds of years ago: Iolanthe MacLeod's mother died when she was 10 and everyone in the household seems to ignore her and could not even remember her name. She vows to never give her name to anyone, the one who is meant to be her love, will guess it. Iolanthe dreams of a man who will rescue her. When her half brother and sister plot to have an Englishman take her away, Iolanthe goes with him because he claims to have a keep on the shore and says he will marry her. In reality, the Englishman was told that Iolanthe knew the secrets of her keep and these secrets would make him wealthy. When Iolanthe refuses to give up the secrets, she is placed in the guard tower and then murdered. She has been haunting the keep for years along with other highland ghosts. When she sees Thomas McKinnon she recognizes him from her dreams all those years ago . When he says her name, she cries and agonizes that he was unable to rescue her before her death. She begins to have feelings for Thomas but knows he will probably leave one day and seek another life. Thomas finds out the secret of Iolanthe's keep was time travel and begins to plan to go back in time to save her and bring her to the future as his wife. Iolanthe fears for Thomas, he will be in danger back in her time and what if she doesn't fall in love with him during that time. Will she remember him in the future?
This book starts out strong, with good development of both characters and their relationship. I like that Thomas falls in love with Iolanthe even though it is not a physical relationship. The antics of their "family" of ghosts is amusing and the story is sweetly romantic and mystical. However, I was kind of disappointed with the ending. The last few chapters seemed to leave you wanting more of what was very first offered in the book. It still was a great story.
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So many time travel stories leave you with more questions than satisfaction... after all, it's hard to keep things matched up right when you mess with time! But Lynn Kurland really does a fantastic job as she has fun with the threads of time. The little hints and subtleties that you'll pick up on your second or third read make it even better than it was the very first time through... and for me to really love a book, it has to be good over and over again!
She does such a wonderful job, too, of taking us through the range of questions and answers and emotion that Thomas goes through in this story. Iolanthe's is more hidden then most of Lynn's characters, but the book is still fantastic.
If you never thought you could like a ghost story, try this one out!
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