{"id":32022,"date":"2025-12-18T11:34:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=32022"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:36:26","slug":"review-her-time-traveling-duke-by-bryn-donovan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/18\/review-her-time-traveling-duke-by-bryn-donovan\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2764\ufe0f Her Time Traveling Duke by Bryn Donovan"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-32022\" data-postid=\"32022\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-32022 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_g5o9917 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner col_align_top gutter-narrow tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_169c918 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_ui2r918 rounded drop-shadow customBorderRad_top image-center auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan.jpg?resize=640%2C987&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-32023\" title=\"her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan\" alt=\"her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan.jpg?w=973&amp;ssl=1 973w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan.jpg?resize=664%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 664w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan.jpg?resize=768%2C1184&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan.jpg?resize=400%2C616&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_9ylz918 customBorderRad_bottom repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Rose Novak, a free-spirited museum employee who dabbles in magic, has had her share of disappointments. So when she tries a little spell for a romance with an \u201cold-fashioned gentleman,\u201d she doesn\u2019t really expect it to work\u2026especially\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">literally<\/span>. And yet, the duke from a painting she admired at the museum is now standing in her apartment, demanding to know who abducted him.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">A man of science and truth, Henry Leighton-Lyons, the Duke of Beresford, has searched tirelessly for a way to turn back time and be with his late wife again. Instead, just as he\u2019s about to pose for his portrait, he\u2019s ripped centuries\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">forward<\/span>\u00a0by a feckless, scantily dressed\u2014and utterly bewitching\u2014woman who believes in nonsense like magical crystals and astrology.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Unable to immediately reverse her spell, Rose vows to help Henry return to his own century, even though disguises and high jinks are required to get their hands on an enchanted astrolabe and master the art of time travel. But it\u2019s hard not to fall for the irritable yet honorable duke.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Little does she know that he\u2019s starting to wonder: did a reckless love spell get it right, after all?<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-2 tb_5a6q918 last\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_a28v918  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16467 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/3_5-hearts-1.jpg?resize=146%2C44&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Dec 9, 2025<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Sensual<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Penguin Group<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Berkley<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $10.99<\/p><hr \/><blockquote class=\"quotes\"><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cHenry was positive it had not been. And it was not the first thing she\u2019d known of his life that she had no reason to know. When he\u2019d first told her and Jason that the astrolabe had been a gift from his wife, Rose had behaved for all the world like she remembered that. The fact that Rose had quoted the same Shakespeare as Charlotte could, of course, be counted as a coincidence, but could her handwriting? Too many strange things were adding up. And Rose believed she\u2019d lived past lives. She said she didn\u2019t remember anything\u2026. but with the right questions, or in the right situation, might those memories come back to her?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">I think time travel is one of my favorite tropes of all time, and I don\u2019t think it gets utilized enough in romance. Many times, it\u2019s the modern woman being thrown back in time to a restrictive, old-fashioned society, swept off her feet by the handsome gentleman. I liked that this one didn\u2019t follow that formula, and it thrust <strong>Henry, Duke of Beresford<\/strong>, into the future at the behest of <strong>Rose Novak\u2019s<\/strong> love spell. Henry had been attempting to time-travel to the past to save his wife, Charlotte, who had passed a few years earlier, but instead, he was thrust into the future, where he did not know anything or anyone. Rose Novak is a self-proclaimed modern witch, and she couldn\u2019t believe that her spell brought a Duke to the future. There is more at play here than magic. Two souls fated to find each other in more than one life.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">I found this story to be incredibly cute and heartfelt. I loved the reincarnation aspect and how they reconnected in another life. The author did a good job laying the groundwork for how all this would work, and I respected that. It wasn\u2019t an empty plot hole that went nowhere.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Occasionally, Rose would irritate me. She was a witch who believed in magic and past lives, but as soon as Henry mentioned that he thought she was Charlotte reincarnated, she became distraught. I would have thought that, given her belief in magic and her experience of someone being transported from the past, she would have been more open and accepting of that revelation. Once she embraced the truth, traveled back in time, and regained her memories, I liked her much better. These two had to fight for their happily-ever-after because they were from different eras. They had to face tough choices about their lives, but in the end, love won out.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">If you\u2019re a fan of time travel stories like those of <strong>Lynn Kurland<\/strong> and <strong>Jude Deveraux<\/strong>, then I absolutely recommend checking this out. This book has something fresh and different for romance fans.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Michelle<\/em><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_fgof918 customBorderRad repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3L8giaE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/49j7S9B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">iBooks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan\/1147114652?ean=9780593816622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">B&amp;N<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/her-time-traveling-duke?sId=f2f2daa6-0104-4847-a0b3-35f9ac72dc32&amp;ssId=tGV5IfEH4TTvFoYvAJWOK&amp;cPos=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Kobo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Bryn_Donovan_Her_Time_Traveling_Duke?id=s3JNEQAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Google Play<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            \t    <\/div>\n\t    <!-- \/row_inner -->\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/module_row -->\n\t<\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rose Novak, a free-spirited museum employee who dabbles in magic, has had her share of disappointments. 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src=\"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan.jpg\" title=\"her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan\" alt=\"her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan.jpg?w=973&amp;ssl=1 973w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan.jpg?resize=664%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 664w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan.jpg?resize=768%2C1184&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan.jpg?resize=400%2C616&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rose Novak, a free-spirited museum employee who dabbles in magic, has had her share of disappointments. So when she tries a little spell for a romance with an \u201cold-fashioned gentleman,\u201d she doesn\u2019t really expect it to work\u2026especially\u00a0literally. And yet, the duke from a painting she admired at the museum is now standing in her apartment, demanding to know who abducted him.<br \/><br \/>A man of science and truth, Henry Leighton-Lyons, the Duke of Beresford, has searched tirelessly for a way to turn back time and be with his late wife again. Instead, just as he\u2019s about to pose for his portrait, he\u2019s ripped centuries\u00a0forward\u00a0by a feckless, scantily dressed\u2014and utterly bewitching\u2014woman who believes in nonsense like magical crystals and astrology.<br \/><br \/>Unable to immediately reverse her spell, Rose vows to help Henry return to his own century, even though disguises and high jinks are required to get their hands on an enchanted astrolabe and master the art of time travel. But it\u2019s hard not to fall for the irritable yet honorable duke.<br \/><br \/>Little does she know that he\u2019s starting to wonder: did a reckless love spell get it right, after all?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/3_5-hearts-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Dec 9, 2025<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Sensual<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Penguin Group<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Berkley<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $10.99<\/p><hr \/><blockquote><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cHenry was positive it had not been. And it was not the first thing she\u2019d known of his life that she had no reason to know. When he\u2019d first told her and Jason that the astrolabe had been a gift from his wife, Rose had behaved for all the world like she remembered that. The fact that Rose had quoted the same Shakespeare as Charlotte could, of course, be counted as a coincidence, but could her handwriting? Too many strange things were adding up. And Rose believed she\u2019d lived past lives. She said she didn\u2019t remember anything\u2026. but with the right questions, or in the right situation, might those memories come back to her?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">I think time travel is one of my favorite tropes of all time, and I don\u2019t think it gets utilized enough in romance. Many times, it\u2019s the modern woman being thrown back in time to a restrictive, old-fashioned society, swept off her feet by the handsome gentleman. I liked that this one didn\u2019t follow that formula, and it thrust <strong>Henry, Duke of Beresford<\/strong>, into the future at the behest of <strong>Rose Novak\u2019s<\/strong> love spell. Henry had been attempting to time-travel to the past to save his wife, Charlotte, who had passed a few years earlier, but instead, he was thrust into the future, where he did not know anything or anyone. Rose Novak is a self-proclaimed modern witch, and she couldn\u2019t believe that her spell brought a Duke to the future. There is more at play here than magic. Two souls fated to find each other in more than one life.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">I found this story to be incredibly cute and heartfelt. I loved the reincarnation aspect and how they reconnected in another life. The author did a good job laying the groundwork for how all this would work, and I respected that. It wasn\u2019t an empty plot hole that went nowhere.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Occasionally, Rose would irritate me. She was a witch who believed in magic and past lives, but as soon as Henry mentioned that he thought she was Charlotte reincarnated, she became distraught. I would have thought that, given her belief in magic and her experience of someone being transported from the past, she would have been more open and accepting of that revelation. Once she embraced the truth, traveled back in time, and regained her memories, I liked her much better. These two had to fight for their happily-ever-after because they were from different eras. They had to face tough choices about their lives, but in the end, love won out.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">If you\u2019re a fan of time travel stories like those of <strong>Lynn Kurland<\/strong> and <strong>Jude Deveraux<\/strong>, then I absolutely recommend checking this out. This book has something fresh and different for romance fans.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Michelle<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3L8giaE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/49j7S9B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/her-time-traveling-duke-bryn-donovan\/1147114652?ean=9780593816622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&amp;N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/her-time-traveling-duke?sId=f2f2daa6-0104-4847-a0b3-35f9ac72dc32&amp;ssId=tGV5IfEH4TTvFoYvAJWOK&amp;cPos=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Bryn_Donovan_Her_Time_Traveling_Duke?id=s3JNEQAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32032,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32022\/revisions\/32032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}