Paula Freda writing as Marianne Dora Rose presents a Clean and Wholesome Christian paranormal romance for hearts of all ages. ......

Description: No one, including her family, knew or suspected Joyce's reason for not wanting that Gary, the man whose tormented heart she desperately sought to heal and win, should hear her mother's favorite memory of what she considered her daughter's true birthday - her date and time of conception, nine months earlier, rather than her date and time of delivery written on Joyce's birth certificate, which by some inconceivable, improbable coincidence matched precisely the date and time of the death of Gary's lost love, Elise, who had died as a result of a car crash. Joyce was conceived the very night of Elise's death. Naturally, she recognized the improbability of her conception having anything to do with Elise's sworn promise to Gary on her deathbed, to return to him, Lord permitting. ......

Notwithstanding Gary's objections that he was too old for twenty-three-year-old Joyce by seventeen years, she had succeeded in gaining his agreement to date her on a friendship basis. But as their friendship grew, neither of them could explain the several cryptic coincidences, including said time and date of Elise's death and Joyce's conception. Were the coincidences merely ordinary coincidences, a fluke, a play of the heart and mind, or a miracle? Was the rumor true held by many of the old folks in their town, that the three-hundred-year-old clock, antique timepieces, hourglasses, and musical jewelry boxes repair shop that Gary and his father ran was purported to have a history of magic and the unnatural? There was a mystery to resolve before Joyce could understand why she felt she had always loved Gary, despite his love for his long-lost Elise, that kept his heart untouchable.