Flutter (review)

Emery has been having seizures for as long as she can remember, and since her mother died, her scientist father's interest in her case has meant scrutiny by a team of doctors. The doctors have contradicting theories about her seizures, but none of them accept her explanation that she's actually traveling in time during the episodes, even when there is physical evidence to support her claims. She decides to escape the hospital and find her way to the town that she visits when she "loops," which is how she describes her out-of-body experiences. She travels to Michigan's Upper Pennisula, where she meets Ash, a good-looking cowboy with a secret. Their romance follows a painfully clichéd trajectory: initial resistance, violent emotional outbursts, mistrust, and misunderstanding overcome by irresistible attraction and ending with inevitable coupling. Additionally, the progress of their relationship is more attenuated than it needs to be, with Emery's overwrought hesitations about her feelings for Ash taking up too many pages between action scenes that move the plot forward to solve the mystery of her seizures. The payoff is a dramatic and unexpected one, however, so readers who can appreciate a leisurely paced romance may enjoy what ends up becoming another riff on the supernatural romance genre.