Tracy’s review of Kiss Across Swords (Time-Crossed Love #2) by Teal Ceagh
Growing up, Taylor Yates never dreamed she would end up happily living with two drop-dead sexy vampires and time-hopping through their thousand years of personal history. Her life is complete—or is it?
When she finds herself at the siege of Jerusalem during the first crusade, Taylor discovers Veris doesn’t know her at all…and doesn’t want to. Worse, he and Brody are total strangers, and Taylor drives a wedge deep between them by trying to seduce Veris at their first meeting—not something a lady of the day does if she wants to keep her head.
Taylor and Brody must woo Veris using the customs of medieval England, win his heart and his full commitment before Jerusalem falls in four days’ time—or when they return to their own time, their lives as they know them will be gone.
In book 1 of this series we discover that Taylor, Veris and Brody are all bonded and can jump back in time to either a time in Veris or Brody’s life. They think that this is a way to show Taylor their very long lives but they really don’t know for sure exactly why they jump.
On Taylor’s birthday, after four years of being together, Taylor asks Veris to change her into a vampire. Veris gets very upset, for reasons that aren’t revealed until later in the book, and leaves Brody and Taylor without a word. Brody and Taylor end up jumping time one night straight into the first crusade in Jerusalem and it’s the time in Brody’s life when he first met Veris and started their very long relationship. But Veris isn’t the same person. The details of his life have changed somewhere along the way and he’s a much more intense, harder person than he was the first time Brody met him. After things get muddled with Veris, Brody and Taylor discover that they are going to have to seduce Veris into being with Brody – because if they don’t the three of them may never exist together in the 21st century and all of their lives will change.
Veris’s refusal to change Taylor at the beginning of the book was quite confusing. There are four years in between the novella that is book one and this series and I was actually surprised that some of the information that came out in this book had never been talked about between the trio. In this story, while Brody and Taylor are back in Jerusalem, events happen and details come to light that explain Veris’s anger at being asked to change Taylor.
Part of the book is really an explanation of how Brody and Veris came into their relationship as told as a story from Brody to Taylor and how, with Taylor there now, how things have changed. But then Taylor and Brody go about trying to get Veris alone and trying to make him see their love for him, without trying to give too many details of his future. The story was a tad confusing at times with trying to figure out what was the past, the future and the present but it was good enough that it kept me wanting to know more.
Teal Ceagh has written a sensual and steamy historical/paranormal/contemporary book that is quite fantastic in its premise but is quite engaging in its telling. If there are more in the series in the future I’ll definitely be interested in reading them.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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This book is available from Ellora’s Cave. You can buy it here in e-format.
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