title: Time's Tapestry
author: Overfield, Joan
description: Now, the incomparable author of THE DOOR AJAR sends a spirited modern-day policewoman back through time to teach a bygone society and a bedazzled lord about crimes of passion...and makes her own discovery about affairs of the heart.
  
  It took a tough, independent woman to be a homicide inspector for Scotland Yard. But Cara Marsdale's skills--and courage--are put to the test when she is swept through a portal in time back to Regency England...and thrown off balance by a handsome lord. Arrogant Stephen Hallforth, the Earl of Harrington, makes her tremble, arouses her temper...and desire.
  
  Cara must call upon more than her experience in undercover work to fit in with the flirtations and fripperies of the 19th-century ton. As she embraces a man and his glittering world, she faces a danger that could forever prevent her from returning to her own time--a danger called falling in love!