Father Francis is a gifted priest in 1908 France when he meets the young novice, Sister Louise. Despite strict codes of conduct, he falls secretly in love with the impetuous, high-spirited woman. She falls in love with his music. The attraction intensifies . . . leading to an unprecedented scandal . . . vehement opposition from family and clergy. When her outraged father takes drastic action, Louise fights to be with the priest she loves. A test of wills ensues . . . dreams of an Atlantic crossing, and a bid for freedom in the New Worldbut can their forbidden love overcome the dictates of the times in which they live? Years later, it is the beautiful, intrepid Mimi, who risks it all for the man she loves. She drives from California to New York to win the heart of the handsome Broadway actor from Minnesota, George N. Valentine. But like her mother before her, can Mimis passion for her lover surmount the obstacles that work to keep them apart?
Father Francis is a gifted priest in 1908 France when he meets the young novice, Sister Louise. Despite strict codes of conduct, he falls secretly in love with the impetuous, high-spirited woman. She falls in love with his music. The attraction intensifies . . . leading to an unprecedented scandal . . . vehement opposition from family and clergy. When her outraged father takes drastic action, Louise fights to be with the priest she loves. A test of wills ensues . . . dreams of an Atlantic crossing, and a bid for freedom in the New Worldbut can their forbidden love overcome the dictates of the times in which they live? Years later, it is the beautiful, intrepid Mimi, who risks it all for the man she loves. She drives from California to New York to win the heart of the handsome Broadway actor from Minnesota, George N. Valentine. But like her mother before her, can Mimis passion for her lover surmount the obstacles that work to keep them apart?
When a twentieth-century archeologist discovers a sacred altar at the abandoned, overgrown ruins of Machu Picchu in 1920, he vanishes from the site just as the solstice sun strikes the altar at a precise momentactivating an ageless gateway into another time. Joseph Bennett is never seen again. Seventy-two years later, Bennetts disappearance sparks the interest of his great-grandson, Christopher Giordano. Equipped only with Josephs journal, Christopher travels to Machu Picchu, determined to solve the mystery that has plagued his family for three generations. In retracing his great-grandfathers last steps, Christopher discovers the ancient altar and finds himself hurled back five hundred years to an Inca civilization on the brink of annihilation. Yet it is here that he meets Shama, an extraordinary Inca Priestess; together they discover a love so powerful that he is torn between his two worlds in two infinitely different centuries. As Christopher and Shama find themselves caught up in the rituals, power plays, and the disintegration of Inca society, Christopher must decide whether to stay in the sixteenth century or return to his family in present time. But is it even possible to return? His choice will determine whether he and Shama live or die.
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