title: A Taste of Heaven
author: Benedict, Barbara
description: A TIMELY PASSION  --  A family emergency had called big-city schoolteacher Monica Ryan back home to the sprawling Louisiana plantation where she'd been born and raised.  And as she walked up to the majestic, oak-lined drive -- a world away from the soaring skyscrapers and bustling sidewalks of New York -- haunting memories stirred on the gently fragrant breeze.  But a treacherous fate awaited her within the vast halls of River's Edge, where cruel circumstance would blind her to a man she could never love... and where a mysterious serpent ring would suddenly transport her back in time -- and into the arms of a seductive, blue-eyed stranger who drew her close and called her by another name....
  
  A TIMELESS LOVE
  
  Drew wasn't sure whether it was fortune or folly that had brought the vanished, wickedly irresistible Monique back to him.  Though his heart ached with the pain of her shattering betrayal, his soul burned with the fiery need to hold her again and possess her once more in passion's searing embrace.  Yet little did he suspect that the woman he called wife was an impostor... an ebony-eyed beauty from another world whose dangerous secrets could destroy them both.  He only knew that they were destined to be together, to lie in each other's arms and reap the rapturous rewards that only their timeless love could begin!