Finding Travis

No Time for Travis, Book 1

By: Melissa Bowersock

Narrated by: Jonathan Waters

2016 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards finalist

Travis Merrill's life isn't going according to plan. He's quit several career paths, his wife has left him, and his only solace is volunteering to portray a cavalry surgeon at historic Fort Verde in Arizona, a place where time seems to stand still.

When a weird trick of time actually sends him back to the year 1877, he's boxed into impersonating the surgeon for real. Unfortunately, he finds his medical knowledge is no match for the primitive practices of the day, and he's forced to make life-or-death decisions, not always successfully.

He wonders if he will ever be able to return to his own time or if he might find a life - and a love - 140 years in the past.

©2016 Melissa Bowersock (P)2019 Melissa Bowersock

Another Great Book from Melissa Bowersock

WOW another winner from Bowersock. Great book it rolls history into a great love story the details are wonderful I could not put it down. On to number 2 in this series I like the narrator does a good job

I loved it!

This book was so good! I listen from beginning to end nonstop. I couldn’t it was too good! I feel like time travel romance and the closest to realistic you can get your love this book. Again I did! Jonathan Winters did a great job now writing. I have never heard a book narrated by him, but look forward to hearing from him again.

Should I stay or should I go…

A fun twist on traveling back in time. When your life isn’t what you want it to be, try a new one on and see if it fits.

I loved the concept, I loved the first scene...

...and the rest did not disappoint! This novel begins at a Christmas-themed living history event. I have attended many such events over the years and felt immediate nostalgia. I've also researched 19th-century medicine and forts of the American West for my own historical fiction, so I found most of this interesting and delightful. I have serious doubts about the use of chloroform, however—I'm pretty sure that was used solely as anesthesia and not as a painkiller after surgery. I also doubt re-inventing penicillin would be this simple. But the rest of the details about medicine and fort life ring true, the former rendered eerie by our current pandemic reality. Apart from his foul mouth, I really liked Travis, and I was very fond of Reilly. I'm thrilled the Irishman will be returning in the sequel. I would however advise the author to re-think her poorly Photoshopped covers, which do a disservice to the story. The narrator is good overall, but his Irish accent and female voices left me underwhelmed.

A wondrous tale

Another exciting time travel book. Melissa Bowersock is a genius at writing of time travel.A novel of fear, love, and severe hardships leads to another superb novel which I highly recommend.