title: Rubies and Other Gems
author: DeBacco, Joyce
description: A one-night stand in her dreams isn't the worst thing to happen to Lily. Learning her dream lover was a real man who lived and died years before she was born qualifies for that.
  Lily's life is in shambles. Her husband is clueless, and her children are rudderless. It's little wonder she seeks comfort in her dreams, unaware that her grandmother's rubies have sent her back in time to a safer, saner existence.
  Aware she can't mend her marriage or steer her children in the right direction unless she stays in the here and now, she vows to leave the past to the past. But in her attempt to take away the jewelry's power, she inadvertently sends herself back without her return ticket, the rubies.