IMAGE IN IVORY — Kaye Wilson Klem

IMAGE IN IVORY On a quest for a family heirloom, when Carrie Todd touches the cameo, she catapults from a costume bash in an 18th Century ballgown into the American Revolution, captive of a darkly dangerous Continental scout on a secret mission through the wilderness. At the same instant, Caroline Renard, the daughter of a Tory aristocrat, lands in the 21st Century, desperately faking amnesia in a terrifying world of boxes that talk and carriages hurtling down superhighways at blinding speed. In flight from Mohawks allied with the British, Gabe Banning and Carrie face new danger from a British patrol and their murderous Mohawk scout. They fight to escape, but neither Carrie nor Gabe can deny the temptation of the growing passion between them. When they win through to Fort Sullivan, Gabe must march with the Continental army against Iroquois villages raiding settlers, against his own people, for Gabe is one-quarter Iroquois. Forbidden to follow him, Carrie joins the army in male disguise, to be abducted by Gabe's enemy the Mohawk scout, Dark Lake, and dragged to his village, enslaved. In present-day Connecticut, Caroline must try to outwit the British psychiatrist who is trying to help her regain her memory. And resist her attraction to him. Carrie can't face never seeing Gabe again. She has to make a break for freedom, despite the odds. When she tries, Gabe at last finds her and Gabe and Dark Lake clash in a life and death struggle. After being wounded, Gabe has deserted the army to search for Carrie; and they collide with new peril when they stumble onto a village, hoping to be wed, unaware it is the town run by Caroline's vengeful father, who mistakes Carrie for Caroline; and is bent on returning Gabe to Continental lines and a firing squad. And for both Carrie and Caroline, the power of the cameo to return them to their own times threatens to snatch them from the happiness they have just found.