Elita La Rue has no love in her life. Her father hates her and blames her for her mother’s death. All her life has been centered around trying to prove to him that she is better than a son. He has many times pointed out to her that she should never have been born. Elita just wants love and maybe to have been born in another century. Her dreams are of Seth Lucan. He is a gunfighter who was an outlaw in his time. Somehow he entered into her heart and into her century. She knows it’s impossible yet somehow he is working in her father’s Wild West theme town. Elita knows she can’t keep him but for once in her life she feels loved. Is it possible to fall in love with a man from the past?

Seth Lucan just wants a normal life. He is tired of being known as an outlaw and a gunfighter. Family can sometimes be a pain in the rear and he knows that from experience. All his life he has been trying to lead a decent life. So it comes as a surprise that he meets Elita La Rue. She is another woman who somehow entered into his heart. He’s tried to deny the attraction and love. A man like him doesn’t get love in his life or a good woman like her. She says she is from 2009 and that somehow he came into her world. Seth has never seen anything like it. There are guns with fake bullets, cars instead of horses and men who don’t treat their women right. He wants more than ever to give the love Elita so deserves but is afraid. Can a man like him from the past love a 21st century woman like Elita?

Ah time travel I so love this theme and especially when it involves gorgeous outlaws like Seth Lucan. I feel sad for Seth for here is a guy who is trying so hard to lead a normal life and because of family can’t. Elita on the other hand wants her family but wants love more than ever. These two are great for each other for both have issues but Charlotte Parker does a great job in bringing love to their lives. These are two people who will have to overcome so many obstacles and time to get the love they both deserve. The author pulls it off flawlessly.

Theme: Time Travel

Western Historical Cactus Rose

Rating: Spicy

Page Count: 304

Dreamer, Elita La Rue, has always romanticized the stories in her great-great-grandmother’s journal and memorized the photographs of two gunfighters--Wild Bill Hickok and Seth Lucan. If only she could turn back the hands of time to 1876! Playing dress up in her father's theme town, Duke's Wild West, is as good as it gets until a handsome gunfighter appears out of nowhere claiming to be Seth Lucan. Elita is willing to believe his outlandish story in hopes he'll make all her fantasies come true.

Seth Lucan is tired. Tired of being mistaken for his outlaw brother, and tired of dodging bullets. When he arrives in Deadwood, his hopes of making enough money to start over are shattered when he discovers the town has not only become a cesspool of thieves and murderers, but the Lucan name and troubles have followed him. Now he’s faced with a new barrage of bullets, a high-strung lady with a wild imagination, and no way out.

A strange mist emanating from the old blacksmith’s shop may answer both their prayers. Will love be enough to save them from the consequences?