Love Can Happen Anytime In These Time Travel Romance Novels

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Love is amazing, and it can happen anytime, anywhere. Romance that spans dimensions is like jumping through a magical portal.

These time travel romance novels connect two people from totally different periods through a universal glitch or scientific experiment. Whether it’s one traveling backward or the other traveling forwards, complications arise as the characters fall in love, despite their centuries-long differences.

Today we’ll be looking at some amazing time travel romance novels that will make you want your own time machine. Let’s go!

1. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Clare’s husband, Henry, can travel through time. And not the set-yourself-up-for-a-certain-date, but the spontaneous and unexpected travel. This seemingly normal couple lives with Henry’s Chrono- Displacement Disorder.

He travels to the past and the future, all the while trying to live a normal life with Clare. The Time Travelers Wife is a beautiful and amusing story about how one couple’s love survives constant instability.

2. Trapped in Time by Denise Daye

Emma Washington is a 21st-century Ph.D. student, but a car accident transports her to 1881 Victorian London. Throughout her journey, she discovers the perils of womanhood. This leads her right to Lord William Blackwell.

If she wants to survive, she must do the one thing she vowed never to do: take the vows to the most powerful duke in England. Did the car accident create a nightmare or a chance at true love? Read to find out!

3. A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux

Regarded as the epitome of every woman’s fantasy by the Chicago Daily Herald, A Knight in Shining Armor is a love story between a present-day heroine and a dashing hero of the past. Dougless Montgomery is weeping her fate on a tombstone when suddenly Nicholas Stafford appears before her.

He is not the boy next door but the Earl of Thornwyck, who died in the sixteenth century. As an adventure beyond their imagination lies before them, their passion grows.

4. How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

In this beautiful romance, Matt Haig tells the story of Tom Hazard, who has a rare condition that has kept him alive for centuries, living history with Shakespeare and Fitzgerald. He moves to London, his old home, to be a high school teacher. But the society that protects people like him has one rule: do not fall in love.

However, the thing they are trying to protect him from might be what saves him. Forced to choose between the past and the present, this story has it all.

5. One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

For a cynical 23-year-old August, New York City is about reaching her dreams on her terms. Her roommate and job situation has hindered her optimism, but her subway rides might prove to be just what she needs.

Jane has caught August’s eye, and it’s all she can think about. But Jane isn’t a regular 20-something New Yorker. She’s from the 1970s, and August must help her get home. If you are looking for a time travel romance with an LGBTQ+ twist, check out One Last Stop now!


We hope you found a new out-of-this-world romance to add to your TBR!