Angie,

I'm sorry, it doesn't ring a bell with me; it sounds like an interesting book. If you don't get any help here, you might want to try over at abe books. They have a book search forum that has phenomenal results most of the time. (and if you do have any luck, I'd like to know the title too!)

Angie,
I think I read this book, though I can't remember the title off the top of my head. Was the heroine betrayed by the Raven King's brother and sent off to the other ruling person, first as a potential concubine for the other ruler's son, but then kept as the older man's concubine instead? And do the two star-crossed lovers come back reincarnated as a Regency-era couple at the very end of the book?

Hmmm ... was it a Romance novel? My friend is addicted to them and I think I remember her trying to get me to read this one. I'm sorry, I can't remember the name, though. I'll see if she remembers it.

Thank you all :)

Sheriz6
Yes - I think that is it!

Now you've got me curious. I want to know, too.

Angie, I've been trying come up with a title and though I could probably recap most of the plot at this point, I'm still drawing a blank on the title and author. It is definitely a romance novel, I think it might have been based on a Celtic or Welsh myth with the Raven King (wasn't the castle built into a Welsh mountain?). I'll let you know if I remember anything more. Very frustrating!

Sounds just like Jude Devereaux's Knight In Shining Armor.
I love that book!! She started off with a really mealy mouthed fiance' and his bratty teenager. She's abandoned and enters a ruin of a church and cries near the stone bier of a knight. Her tears awaken him....does this sound familiar? Hope so!
Kim

Knight in Shining Armor didn't have any magician/bird stuff that I recall, though I read it years ago.

Rosefolly

Thanks you sheriz. I appreciate the help.

rottenlivia - that doesnt sound familiar, but that book sounds really good. Will have to put it on the wnat to read list :o)

wow sounds very interesting.. i asked some of my frens but none of them know..

This lack of a title will slowly drive me nuts *g*...

FWIW, here's the plot as I remember it:

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Heroine somehow winds up with Raven King (I don't remember her falling asleep, but I do vaguely recall she was against the idea initially).

Raven King seduces her, they fall in love, and go off to live in a huge black stone castle, I think, in Wales. Raven King has an unhinged and dangerously jealous brother who does something nasty to him and the Heroine, I can't recall just what, but she eventually forgives him (stupid move on her part). When she finds out she's pregnant, and while Raven King is off doing something or other, she goes to the rotten brother to make a peace offering and try to bring the brothers back together. Evil brother promptly sells her into slavery and tells the RK she's dead or run off.

She's sold to a noble family far away consisting of an older father and a horrible son who has two wife/concubines but he's annoyed that he's not fathered any children with them. As Heroine is very pregnant by the time she arrives here, he decides she'll be his, because obviously she can breed. She in turn questions the ill-treated wife/concubines and learns the horrible son had mumps as a teenager. Because of her knowledge of medicine, she tells him he's sterile, which angers him further. Older dad steps in and decides Heroine should belong to him instead. Son nurses deep rage.

She has her baby (the Raven King's son) and she and the older man slowly come to care for each other. Heroine becomes the healer in the castle. She eventually bears a daughter for her new husband. In the meantime, the RK finally figures out she might still be alive and poses as a troubadour to get into the nobleman's castle. This part is hazy at best, but I think he tricks the two men into fighting and something happens to the father. The Heroine is then forced by the nasty son to be the castle whore and is offered to the troubadour (the RK is disguised as a really yucky guy). Lucky for her, it's her own true love, and everything works out. I believe she becomes pregnant again, but they are separated again.

Somehow they escape and make it back separately to the RK's castle, but while he's turned into a raven one of his own men accidentally shoots him down and he dies. She's left with three children and his castle and I really don't remember what happens to the evil brother.

Finally, in the last chapter, fast forward 500 years or so to two sedate, proper, Regency-era lovers who are taking a sedate and proper walking tour and come across the ruins of the RK's castle. The reincarnated Heroine somehow knows how to climb the barely discernible stairs hewn in the rock and talks about which rooms were where in the castle. The Hero (whose name, for who knows what reason I clearly remember as being Tom -- would that the author and title had made the same...

Sheri, after hours of research the only title that I can come up with is The Adventures of Evangeline: The Story of a Girl who Should have Known Better" by The Hon. Desiree du Pont ;-)

LOL, Vee, that title would fit!

What really troubles me is that I remember so much about the plot ... I must have read it Before Children ...

i asked in another forum and someone suggested A Moment In Time written by Bertrice Small.. n the sypnosis somehow fits your descriptions..

I also posted on another forum and the consensus seems to be A Moment in Time.

Yes! Thank you both, that's the one. Completely forgettable title, so I don't feel so bad. As I said before, I find it rather alarming that I DID remember so much of it (though I throughly enjoyed refreshing my memory by reading the rather sarcastic plot synopsis on Amazon).

THANK YOU!

Hmmm - the book Angie and SheriZ6 described sounded quite intriguing, but the one Amazon described did not! Two bad one of them couldn't take the plot outline and write a better book with it. Too bad that would be plagiarism. If ever there was an argument in its favor, this is it.