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    A Chance in Time
    A Chance in Time
    A Chance in Time
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    A Chance in Time

    By Ruth Ann Nordin

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    One widow...
    One time traveler...
    Two lonely hearts connecting for a moment in time...

    One day Penelope Jordan finds a man who's on the brink of death and nurses him back to health. Over time, he brings out the woman that the harsh prairie made her forget she once was, and soon she falls in love with him.

    But will he stay with her...in her time...or will he return to the future?

    *Author's Note: Penelope and Cole Hunter show up in Restoring Hope and Bound by Honor Bound by Love.

    These are the books in the Native American Romance Series:
    Restoring Hope
    A Chance In Time
    Brave Beginnings
    Bound by Honor Bound by Love

    *Penelope and Cole Hunter were introduced in Meant To Be. If you'd like background information on Cole Hunter, Meant To Be tells more of his story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRuth Ann Nordin
    Release dateApr 5, 2010
    ISBN9781452376936
    A Chance in Time
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    Ruth Ann Nordin

    Ruth Ann Nordin has written almost 100 romances, ranging from Regencies to historical westerns to contemporaries. She plays with other genres from time to time, but her first love is romance. She has been happily married for twenty-two years to a sweet and funny guy, and they have four sons, who are all taller than Ruth now that they're 16, 17, 19, and 20. The good thing is she doesn't need a ladder. She considers herself very lucky to have led such a charmed life. Being able to play with characters and create stories is just icing on the cake. Hopefully, she'll get to keep doing this many years to come.

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    • 4/5
      This was an interesting short story. If you like time travel with some romance then this is a great read. This was a free book in the Kindle Store.
    • 2/5
      There was a lot of potential in this short novel, which, alas, was not realised. It features a young widowed 'mail-order' bride in the USA, at the end of the 19th century. She comes across a seriously dehydrated stranger and nurses him back to health. There's a bizarre twist in that he is a time-traveller... which could have led to a very interesting story. Unfortunately, it seemed almost irrelevant. That theme was really not explored at all.

      Moreover, although it started well, the novel needed a lot of editing. Viewpoints switched constantly, sometimes confusingly, and none of the characters were very well developed despite a great deal of reflection and self-talk. The end of the book featured a strangely explicit love scene which was was totally out of keeping with the rest of the book. It was - for some strange reason - categorised as Christian fiction, possibly because a church is mentioned a couple of times.

      I downloaded this book free for my Kindle, so perhaps two and a half stars would be fairer; I would have been very disappointed if I had paid for it.

      Really not recommended.
    • 3/5
      I like this author the stories are sweet and simple
    • 1/5
      [edit]I'm glad this was a free ebook because it was only the shell of a story. I wouldn't even classify it as a novella. I wanted more backstory and character development. This book also failed as a romance as I didn't feel the love connection/spark between them at all. Without any build up in their relationship Penelope falls madly in love with Cole. Why?The main characters, Penelope and Cole, have more than being born in two different centuries standing in their way. They have an unknown past! We don't really know much about Cole and his life before he ended up in the middle of the prairie, where Penelope found and rescued him. One thing that really bothered me is that modern language throughout the book. It is inappropriate for the time period in which the story is set. For example, Penelope asks Cole what he wants for "lunch" and the noon-day meal was referred to as dinner in the 19th century. The author really should have spent a little time researching the 19th century.I think this is an example of a book that was rushed to publication before it was ready.
    • 5/5
      Absolutely one of my favorite authors. Once again, another great book from Ruth Ann Nordin. Time travel, history, romance. Man travels back in time for one reason and ends up choosing to stay for a different reason. Good, clean read.

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    A Chance in Time - Ruth Ann Nordin

    Native American Romance Series: Book 2

    A Chance in Time

    A novella based on the characters in

    Meant to Be, Restoring Hope, and

    Bound by Honor Bound by Love

    Ruth Ann Nordin

    A Chance In Time

    Published by Ruth Ann Nordin

    Copyright © 2010 by Ruth Ann Nordin

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

    Cover Photo © Copyright Shutterstock Images LLC. All rights reserved – Used with permission.

    Table of Contents

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Chapter Seven

    Chapter Eight

    Chapter Nine

    Chapter Ten

    Chapter Eleven

    Chapter Twelve

    Chapter Thirteen

    Chapter Fourteen

    Books in the Native American Romance Series

    Meant To Be

    All Books by Ruth Ann Nordin

    Where to Find Ruth

    Dedicated to Danielle Watson, Cyn Goustin, Tiffany Davis, and Bonnie Steffens whose input while I wrote this is greatly appreciated.

    Chapter One

    Author’s Note: This book overlaps some of the events in Restoring Hope.

    Late spring 1898

    Loneliness. It was a constant companion out in the middle of a vacant North Dakota prairie. Vacant, that is, except for a woman. A woman who ventured out west as a mail-order bride only to have her husband die shortly after they built their home. A woman who spent a year alone with nothing for company except two horses and the howls of coyotes in the middle of the night. Their howls echoed the resounding emptiness in her heart and in her life.

    Penelope Jordan packed her things. Today she’d return to civilization. She had enough of being isolated from other people. God, after all, did not create man to be alone, and after spending endless hours by herself, she learned how true that lesson was.

    Loading her belongings into the wagon didn’t take long. The two geldings obeyed her command to move forward. At long last, she was leaving. She didn’t look back at the one room cabin. It was a cruel reminder of all that she’d hoped for but lost. A lifetime with someone who was to be her lover and friend.

    But she wouldn’t dwell on the past. Things that could have been were better left untended to. And so she guided the geldings northeast where the nearest town was. She’d take a job. She didn’t care what that job was as long as it involved being near other people.

    Twenty minutes passed before she found him. He was lying down, on his stomach, in the tall grass. She pulled the horses to a stop and set the brake before she stepped down from the wagon. She rushed over to him. He was badly burned from spending a good length of time in the sun. Blisters had formed on his hands and face. How lucky he was that his clothes covered the rest of him.

    Mister? she called.

    No response.

    She tucked a rebellious strand of hair back under her bonnet and knelt beside him. Mister. She nudged him in the arm.

    Still, no response. His blond hair ruffled from the wind’s activity, and thankfully, his beard had protected most of his face. The poor man. What he must have gone through to end up like this.

    She took a deep breath to settle her sudden anxiety. What if he was dead? She glanced at the miles of grass that spanned in all directions. If he was dead, should she carry his corpse to town? He should have a proper burial, shouldn’t he? Or should she leave him to the elements and let nature take care of him?

    He groaned.

    Startled, she turned her attention back to him. Mister? She shook his shoulder. Can you hear me?

    Instead of giving her any answers, he grew silent.

    She touched his face and realized his skin was hot. Maybe it was from the sunburn...or maybe it was a fever. He really didn’t look well. She stood up and ran to her wagon where she picked up the canteen that had been resting next to her seat.

    When she returned to him, she realized he was having trouble breathing. She turned him over, hoping the change in position would help.

    He moved his lips as if to speak but no sound came out. She gently lifted his head and tucked it into the crook of her arm before letting the cool liquid seep into his mouth. She watched him swallow. His eyelids fluttered until they opened. He had light blue eyes, but they were unfocused. He most likely didn’t even see her.

    Can you hear me? she asked.

    He gave a slight nod, winced and then closed his eyes again.

    She couldn’t help but feel sorry for him. She’d never seen a man who looked worse off than he did, except for her husband as he struggled for his last breath through fluid-filled lungs. The reminder struck a cord of panic through her. Not this time. She wasn’t going to let another man die if she could help it!

    She let him sip on the water until he passed out. Setting the canteen by his side, she felt his forehead again. It was too hot. There was no way she could blame this on his sunburn, even if it was severe. How many days had he been wandering through the vast wilderness? What was he doing out here? He didn’t even have a horse...or if he did, the horse was long gone. She shook her head. Such things didn’t matter right now. She needed to get him to the cabin where he could rest.

    The task of bringing one of the geldings to him and pulling his dead weight onto it was daunting, to say the least. He must have been a head taller than her. But she managed it. The journey back to her solitary home took longer than normal, but she wanted to be careful so she didn’t cause the stranger more damage than he’d

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