All her life the heroine has been plagued by a voice in her head telling her she must right a grievous wrong and when she receives a script about the story of Thorn and Matilda she's enraptured by their story. Tormented by guilt over the death of a woman, Thorn has put himself into seclusion and is gruff, antisocial and far from a typical hero. But by the end of the story, his love for Matilda has changed him. This is all cut short abruptly by his death in a duel. The heroine is devastated to read this ending and demands the writer to change it. He, in turn, forces her back in time and into the story she loves so much. She finds herself living through each twist and turn of Matilda but finds out that things aren't happening exactly to script. The hero, Thorne, a living breathing man, is cold and ruthless. He's degraded himself from an honorable soldier to the reluctant owner of a inn. The heroine is resourceful, courageous and hardworking. She knows that she can't survive in this new-old world without the inn and Thorn so she becomes a servant in his home. She doesn't complain about her down grade in employment and strives to find herself a home with the tortured boss and his French servant. She was admirable in character and stubbornly refuses to give up until she can return home. Though there is major and I mean MAJOR, chemistry from the jump between the two, she and the hero are very much at arms length for most of the book. If they weren't having spontaneous and passionate kisses that ended as soon as they started, they were ignoring each other. The hero put up the most fight throughout the book and held out until amost the very ending. The heroine was trying to svae herself in the beginning but preventing the hero's death but soon she was doing everything in her power to save the man she loves. This was a very interesting book and I don't think I;ve read it's like before. The heroine knows, more or less, what is going to happen to her and the hero and she tries to stop these events or prevent them as best she could. But as the reader, you don't know what she knows until the scene is set. My only issue with this book was that there comes a point where tension needs a release. You have to wait some time before the hero will admit his feelings or even act like her feels anything for her at all other than lust. Of course he's well work the wait but I found myself just saying ' get on with it already'. That being said, the heroine didn't spew out modern sayings very often and kept her mouth shut it situations where she'd do more hard then help; something I long for in a time travel romance. Very nice story. ( )