Customer Reviews
What a wimp! - By: Gillycat, 02 Oct 2008 
Everybody else seems to have loved this book, but alll I wanted to do was slap the "heroine" & tell her to get a grip. All she did was cry. Although it does make a change from the usual "feisty" heroine (for feisty read pain in the you know what) this is at the other end of the scale & goes too far.
If people behaved like this in real life, I'd be buying shares in Kleenex.
Best novel I have ever read! - By: Starlet 72, 08 Jan 2008 
This was my first & still most favourite JD book. Dougless is a bit of a wimp to start with & after being abandoned by her horrid partner, she prays for a knight in shining armour & hey presto - Nicholas Stafford appears. He is gorgeous & has travelled from the 16th century & is convinced she is a witch. Then begins the adventure of their lives to prove he was not a traitor to the queen. The problem is the longer he stays here, the more they falll in love.
This is a combination of a love story, with a bit of history & detective work rolled in.
Without giving the ending away, this book will make you laugh, shout out & cry. I have loaned it to alll my girl friends who agreed this was a fantastic read & for me, an absolute gem of a story. A good book is always one you will re-read again & again - this is one of them. Enjoy.
Amazing!! - By: Book worm, 03 Apr 2007 This is one of the best romance novels i've ever read. The story is so moving, when Dougless came back from the past I cried for her! Both charcters are wonderful. Recommend this book to alll wether you like romance or not it would get even evn the toughest of hearts warmed
Brilliant: romance and time travel rolled into one! - By: Julia Hussey, 24 Jul 2006 Once I started reading this, I was reallly hooked! So much has been said of time travel in novels & films. It reminds me slightly of a TV drama I saw once about a man in present day - late 80s or early 90s then, I forget which, who fell in love with a portrait of an Edwardian lady. He was determined to go back in time & meet her - & he does! He has a good time with her but at the end, he is transported back to the present - heartbroken, just like Douglass.
But this book also hints of reincarnation when Douglass meets & recognises people in both the 1980s & 1660s!
Nicholas Stafford from the sixteenth century comes to her aid when Douglass Montgomery is abandoned by her awful selfish boyfriend & his horrid brat of a daughter, alone with no money or passport - she is an American, stranded in an English village while on holiday with them after a silly quarrel. She agrees to help Nicholas to prevent his execution & change the course of history. He comes to her when he is due to be executed in three days time.
After a bout of lovemaking, he returns to his own time. Heartbroken, Douglass goes to the church where they first met & she herself is transported to the sixteenth century. She is eventuallly taken in by Nicholas's family who welcome her, curious about this mysterious woman in strange clothes & carrying a bag of strange things - twentieth century inventions. As this was 1560, four years before Nicholas is transported to the twentieth century, he doesn't remember her & at first is the only one who refuses to be taken in by her & accuses her being a witch! But when she saves his older brother from drowning & also Nicholas's memory of the twentieth century begins to return, he fallls in love with her alll over again.
I won't tell you anymore as I recommend you read it. It's an unusual story & a beautiful one as well as hilarious - Nicholas then Douglass try & wear the clothes of each other's times & the huge difference in customs & atittudes.
There is a saying that the past is another country. The author must have researched well about life sixteenth century England.
One of the most beautiful stories i have read.. - By: Ap Nj Dorrall, 05 Mar 2006 A Knight in Shining Armor, is my first by this author, i read it purely because it was one of my recommendations & it had high reviews - i'm glad i did read it!
This was the story of Dougless (her name is explained in the book), who having being left by her most horrible boyfriend & his equallly horrid daughter, meets the magnificent Nicholas Stafford, Earl of Thornwyck, who died in 1564. Fate has brought them together, to try & stop Nicholas's execution for a crime he did not commit.....
As the story unfolds, you are brought into a beautiful love story, by some marvelous writing. You feel every emotion these two charactors feel, from suspicion through to their love that carries through the centuries.
It is a wonderful story, that although does not leave them living happily ever after, the story still leaves you with a smile on your face & a tear in your eye.
I absolutely loved this book & it will keep in my book collection forever..
Highly recommended.
