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"Whatever You Wish" by Amy Elizabeth Saunders, from the novella anthology Midsummer Night's Magic, Craig (1997)
The recent influx of queries on time-travel romances has made me think of my own forgotten title.
Does anyone recall a story about a woman who had been born in medieval times but somehow transported to contemporary times as a baby? As I recall, the story opened with the woman attending the wedding of her sibling. She accidentally stepped in a fairy ring and was transported back to her home time period, where she met her love interest, the local lord. She stayed with the lord long enough to fall in love with him and his daughter, but when the daughter became sickly she brought the girl back to modern times and modern medicine. I think the lord later followed her?
The lord was convinced the woman was magical, like a fairy or elf. When she first appeared to him, in her bridesmaid dress, she was holding a box of butterflies to be released during the wedding. The box opened the moment the lord touched the woman and the butterflies flew everywhere, but then they all froze in the medieval winter temperatures.
I'm pretty sure I read this during the 1990s, and I have a feeling it was a fairly new publication at the time. I think it was smaller story that I read in a romance anthology, the sort that featured four or five stories along a theme, but I can't recall any memories of the other stories. Boo.
Sound familiar to anyone? Many thanks!
"Whatever You Wish" by Amy Elizabeth Saunders, from the novella anthology Midsummer Night's Magic, Craig (1997)
The recent influx of queries on time-travel romances has made me think of my own forgotten title.
Does anyone recall a story about a woman who had been born in medieval times but somehow transported to contemporary times as a baby? As I recall, the story opened with the woman attending the wedding of her sibling. She accidentally stepped in a fairy ring and was transported back to her home time period, where she met her love interest, the local lord. She stayed with the lord long enough to fall in love with him and his daughter, but when the daughter became sickly she brought the girl back to modern times and modern medicine. I think the lord later followed her?
The lord was convinced the woman was magical, like a fairy or elf. When she first appeared to him, in her bridesmaid dress, she was holding a box of butterflies to be released during the wedding. The box opened the moment the lord touched the woman and the butterflies flew everywhere, but then they all froze in the medieval winter temperatures.
I'm pretty sure I read this during the 1990s, and I have a feeling it was a fairly new publication at the time. I think it was smaller story that I read in a romance anthology, the sort that featured four or five stories along a theme, but I can't recall any memories of the other stories. Boo.
Sound familiar to anyone? Many thanks!
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Some more details:
The lord was weirdly fascinated by the woman's rose nail polish, and relieved when it started chipping off and revealing normal-colored nails.
The issue of the woman being adopted was a big part of the opening of the story. I believe her (contemporary) mother had had difficulty conceiving and was desperate for a child. (The adoption may have been illegal?) After the adoption, the lack of stress allow the mother to conceive and have at least one biological child, possibly twins.
The woman worked in a medical profession, possibly a doctor or a nurse.
The lord was weirdly fascinated by the woman's rose nail polish, and relieved when it started chipping off and revealing normal-colored nails.
The issue of the woman being adopted was a big part of the opening of the story. I believe her (contemporary) mother had had difficulty conceiving and was desperate for a child. (The adoption may have been illegal?) After the adoption, the lack of stress allow the mother to conceive and have at least one biological child, possibly twins.
The woman worked in a medical profession, possibly a doctor or a nurse.
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Solved! A kind suggestion on another thread provided the answer.
"Whatever You Wish" by Amy Elizabeth Saunders from the novella anthology Midsummer Night's Magic, Craig.
"Whatever You Wish" by Amy Elizabeth Saunders from the novella anthology Midsummer Night's Magic, Craig.
