Waking up in bed with a stranger is not part of Isla’s plans. Especially considering that stranger claims to be a pirate from the Eighteenth Century and she’s in nothing but her starkies.Isla Barnes hates love, marriage, and commitment. As a Millennial in her twenties, she’s focused on starting her criminal journalism career, finally living on her own in an expensive apartment in Los Angeles, and … in Los Angeles, and having fun with cute guys. After a chance encounter with a psychic at a bachelorette party with her closest friends, she wakes up in nothing but her party dress to an unfamiliar bedroom next to a man claiming to be a pirate from the Eighteenth Century.
While she attempts to figure out where she is and why she’s here with him, her new companion, Captain Matt Scott of the Crimson Wave, is on a mission to rescue his sister from the hangman’s noose. Isla decides to tag along because he offers her free passage and she finds she feels safe with him – which is odd, considering the only man she trusts is her father.
After rescuing Matt’s sister, Sarah, they hole up in her brothel until things die down. When one of the brothel’s employees is murdered, Isla offers to solve the murder using her knowledge from the future as a way to distract herself from her growing feelings for the pirate captain. But when the murderer turns their attention to Isla, time is running out to discover who it is before she becomes the latest victim.
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This is my first time reading something by Ms. Myers and also my first time travel book. I was a little skeptical at first, but I enjoyed the story. The author did a good job of transporting you from modern day back to the 1700’s with her descriptions and attention to details. This is quite the page-turner and the mystery surrounding the murder of the women is quite exciting. I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see what would happen. There’s plenty of adventure and intrigue to keep you captivated. A very entertaining read!
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The present is Isla, she is an independent woman with the dreams of a successful career as a criminal journalist. Living in LA in a great apartment with plenty of single men to have fun with.
The past is Matt, he is a pirate from the past, searching for his sister. Isla ends up in his bed after a bachelorette party.
The future, can these two find Matt’s sister? As they get to know one another, can they find their own happiness? An entertaining read. Enjoy!
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This is an interesting tale of a woman born into the wrong time. When she wakes up in a different time and in a pirate’s bed the adventure begins. This is a time travel/ pirate romance filled with danger, murder, mystery suspense, drama, humor and romance. I really enjoyed the storyline and I look forward to reading more time travel books by this author.
Although I have enjoyed other books by Heather C. Myers, this one was in dire need of some hardcore tough love (and not the yummy kind) and probably doesn’t even deserve 2 stars. And that is saying something since I’m one of the biggest fans of time travel romance on the planet.
I shall be kind and start with the things that I enjoyed: the idea for the plot was quite interesting, and I liked the period of history chosen. Some of the characters were ok too.
And now for the critique:
1. The point of view changed back and forth between 1st person for Isla and 3rd person for Matt and everyone else, which was distracting and interrupted the story’s flow.
2. Most of the story was one gigantic, illogical, unnecessary, contradictory, rambling, mental dialogue on Isla’s part. Seriously, ugh.
3. Isla apparently can’t decide if she has a history of getting wild and drunk and sleeping around, or if she has only had 3 long-term bedroom partners in all of her 24 years as well as only getting a little buzzed on occasion but only in safe spaces.
4. For a communications major she certainly fails at communicating.
5. How is a communications major who only just graduated an experienced crime journalist? At least she watched tv.
6. Who wakes up in a different century and never says what year she was born or came from and instead keeps repeating the “21st century”? That whole conversation was off.
7. I highly doubt that a pirate in the 1700’s would be fluent in the modern culture of feelings.
8. She was immediately irrate with Becky without even finding out what was going on.
9. The timeline was messed up in several sections.
10. How can Isla “know” stuff about Matt and “know that he knows” stuff about her when they only just met? This was the most delusional instalove idea ever and there wasn’t even any instalove.
11. He told her that he loved her and yet she still went off on a 500 page disjointed, manufactured angsty monologue about how she didn’t know what his feelings for her were, even though she already professed to “knowing” him and trusting him.
12. She was awfully judgemental about the “w-h0res” throughout the story all the while professing not to judge them. Perhaps not using that word 10,000 times would have been a good start in the non-judgemental direction.
13. Why would Matt be cranky and accuse Isla of being blunt when she mentioned his sister being in danger of getting lynched when those were Matt’s exact words to her?
14. Considering the definition of being lynched means to be hung by a mob without due process, she was actually in danger of being executed by the government, not lynched.
15. Correctly spelled wrong words popped up several times.
I could go on and on, but really the worst part of this book was being subjected to Isla’s wishy-washy, hypocritical, unfocused, mental monologues.
I received a free copy of this book, but that obviously did not affect my review.
This was different than what I’ve read before and I enjoyed it so much. It has history, time-travel, psychics, mystery, murders, and hot passion that I couldn’t put it down. It was intriguing and exciting.
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Part of the A Scandalous Adventure at Seas Series a well written time travel story. Isla Barnes goes back to the Eighteenth Century where she meets Captain Matt Scott of the Crimson Wave who is trying to save his sister Sarah. There is suspense, drama, danger, murder, a villain, and romance. I enjoyed reading and want to read more in this series. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Imagine being born in the wrong time and at twenty three going back to where you belong. Isla is a twenty first century twenty three year old with a degree, job, and friends. Everything a normal modern woman has. She is struck by a truck and wakes up in 1713 on a pirate ship in the captain’s bed. The captain, Matt Scott thinks she’s a prostitute because of her skimpy outfit. Isla has to adapt to this era and living among pirates in the Carribbean. At first she wants to go back into the future, but as she settles into her new life and is falling in love with Matt , maybe the angel that brought her back from the twenty first century was right. This is where she belongs. Then women are being strangled and Isla is in danger because the suspect knows she knows who he is. I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review
I have so many words I can use to describe this, I’m not quite sure which ones I want to pick. It’s a light-hearted, semi-historical romance with a dash of adventure and a splash of intrigue. It’s sweet and sexy and with a murder mystery happening in the middle of their romance, it successfully has a little bit of everything. The chemistry between Isla and Matt is off-the charts. Matt’s the best kind of alpha hero I like to find – strong and nurturing. I especially loved watching how far Isla grew as she settled into 18th century Jamaica, learning to love herself and value her own opinion.
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