Heaven on Earth [Paperback]

The paranormal and the supernaturalAtime travel and an angelic heroAcombine to dubious effect in this week novel as a contemporary young woman is hit by lightening near Santa Fe and thrown back to 1878. Casey O'Reilly finds herself under the protection of a mysterious man named Luke who claims to be a fellow time traveler and arranges for her to be the guest of an aristocratic Hispanic family. Although Casey understandably refuses to believe she has gone back through time, she never seeks any other explanation for the strangeness of her surroundings. Instead, she repeatedly tries to find a telephone and stamps her foot and throws temper tantrums when she doesn't get her way. Her personal growth is a theme of the book, but her behavior seems immature for a 31-year-old woman. O'Day-Flannery (Once and Forever, etc.) advances the love affair primarily through fuzzy philosophical discussions about self-knowing and finding one's own path in life. The Santa Fe setting and the Hispanic family provide colorful period details, but Luke's cushioning presence keeps Casey's interaction with the past strictly superficial and mostly uninvolving.
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"Ms. O'Day-Flannery once again reminds us that love transcends time and space in this romantic story...The protagonists are enchanting...A must read from an author with a vivid imagination and romance in her heart."--"Rendezvous"Always clever, always special, always superb, Constance O'Day Flannery is the undisputed queen of time-travel romance. She never disappoints and Heaven On Earth is exactly what readers want."--"Romantic Times

At thirty-one, Casey O'Reilly feels it is time for her to take control of her life. She is attractive and desirable, yet lives alone. She has a boring, dead-end job. And her opportunity to become a mother--the one thing in life she covets above all else--seems to be slipping away. But an old magic is awakened in the New Mexican desert while she is traveling on vacation to Santa Fe. And when Casey opens her eyes after a freak storm hits, she finds herself in a place similar but strangely different--with a devastatingly handsome stranger approaching her.

In a voice deep and warm, he calls himself "Luke"--a mysterious traveler, like Casey, from another time. For, miraculously and inexplicable, the year is 1878. Suddenly, the man of Casey O'Rielly's dreams is standing before her, to act as her powerful yet gentle guide through the sensuous mysteries of romance in this vibrantly colorful and unfamiliar world. The destiny she has ached for her whole life is stake--unless her love is strong enough to win, now and eternally, the devotion of the man who has journeyed back through lifetimes to join her.

Constance O'Day-flannery is the author of seventeen books, all of which have secured positions on national bestseller lists, and thirteen of which are time travel romances for which she is well known and loved.Her successes include the New York Times bestseller.Once in a Lifetime and Second Chances, for which she received the Best Contemporary Fantasy Romance Award from Romantic Times.