num_pages: 406
description: Tess Gregory's brilliant career as a research scientist hides her longings for husband and child. Though deaf, she is a free spirit--a woman full of life and love. She is struck down all too soonBut for Tess, a new life begins at her death, in post-Civil War America. She is now Amarylis Rafferty, wife and mother of three--and she can hear. Shocked and disoriented by her new surroundings, she is drawn into the savage heartache burdening the family, especially her husband, Jack, a man who fears himself capable of anything.
language: English
title: Once in Every Life
titlecomplete: Once in Every Life
characters: Tess Gregory/Amarylis Rafferty
genres: Contemporary Romance, Historical, Fantasy, Chick Lit, Time Travel, Historical Romance, Romance, Historical Fiction, Time Travel Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 3187
publisher: Ballantine Books