The Other Adonis: A Novel of Reincarnation Paperback - 2002

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It was not spring fever that had troubled Nina this day.

From the rear cover

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?If true love can travel across time,
can true evil be far behind?
When the beautiful Dr. Nina Winstons patient Bucky Buckingham reveals his secret to her, she has to doubt him. Reincarnation? True love across four centuries? But Nina is fascinated and lets herself be drawn into the charming and vulnerable Buckys tale and into his life. Through hypnotherapy, she meets his former identity, and in real life, she meets his former paramour. If Bucky did live before, is Constance Rawlings his reincarnated lover? A dangerous search begins for the truth behind predestined love, and Nina is caught in the middle of soaring passions and raging jealousies.
Peter Paul Rubenss painting, Venus and Adonis, which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the inspiration for this fast-paced thriller set alternately between the seventeenth century in Antwerp and the present day in New York. A novel of intrigue and suspense, The Other Adonis is a tale of true love and murder, a mystery that takes the reader back in time to another world, with a resolution that will delight romantics and turn skeptics into believers.
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?Frank Defords work can be found across a broad range of genres. He has written twelve books on many subjects. Two of them, Everybodys All-American and Alex: The Life of a Child, were made into movies. Mr. Deford has also won many honors as a magazine writer and is a member of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame. He has been a commentator on National Public Radio for twenty years. On television, where he is now a correspondent for RealSports with Bryant Gumbel on HBO, he has won both an Emmy and a Peabody Award. This is his seventh novel. Mr. Deford resides in Connecticut with his wife, Carol.