Times Change
by Nora Roberts
Jacob (J.T.) Hornblower, astrophysicist, deliberately travels back a couple of centuries
to shake some sense into his brother Caleb, who had foolishly (in J.T.’s opinion)
decided to stay in the past. A little more science than the first book
in this duology, but still heavier on the romance angle, as J.T. finds himself strongly
attracted to Sunbeam (Sunny) Stone. Both J.T. and Sunny are opinionated and bullheaded,
as well as having blackbelts, so there is also more conflict in this book. The documented
return trip to the future includes a brief description of physical side-effects.
— Tandy Ringoringo
And now he stood and wondered. If he dug for it, he would come upon the same box. The box
that he had left with his parents only days before. The box would exist here, beneath his
feet, just as it existed in his own time. As he existed.
If he dug it up now and
carried it back to his ship, it would not be there for him to find on that high summer
day in the twenty-third century. And if that was true, how could he be here, in this
time, to dig it up at all?
Times Change by Nora Roberts (Silhouette, January
1990).