If Only In My Dreams

After discovering that she has breast cancer, actress Clara McCallum opts to spend Christmas alone in New York City working rather then telling her family. Clara is the female lead in a movie about Jed Landry and Glenhaven, a town that lost several of its sons in the WW II. Imagine her disbelief and astonishment when she is transported back to 1941 while filming the scene and meeting the real Jed Landry, who is a man that she could easily imagine falling in love with.

IF ONLY IN MY DREAMS by Wendy Markham is the perfect book to curl up with on a cold winter evening. The pacing is smooth, the dialogue is realistic and the sights and sounds are so historically accurate the reader can easily see themselves stepping off that train with Clara. Ms. Markham deserves kudos for her research! There is simply nothing in this book that will jar the reader out of story.

This reviewer particularly enjoyed the characters. When discovering the cancer, Clara did what so many of us would do in immediately seeing herself as becoming disfigured. She also closed out the people she loved such as her mother and father. In becoming closer to Jed, her self image changes and grows. Now Jed is a hero to dream off. A man of the ‘40s, he is polite, respectful of women and caring of his family. He is a man of dreams yet willing to set them aside to accept the responsibility of being the man of the house. The secondary characters such as Jed’s sisters and Clara’s landlord do a wonderful job of contributing to the story while not trying to take it over.

This reviewer highly recommends IF ONLY IN MY DREAMS to any readers who enjoy time travel romances as well as Christmas tales. Get your copy today but don’t wait til next Christmas to read it.

January 2007