If I Can't Have You

Trevor Montgomery was more handsome than Tyrone Power or Cary Grant; more dashing and daring than Errol Flynn; he was a man every woman desired and all men envied. He was a movie star who’d enthralled millions in the 1930’s—and then he disappeared.Adriana Howard is rich beyond imagining, but her life has been cloaked in scandal, and she’d rather love a man on a movie screen—a 1930’s idol and maybe a murderer—than face the real world.He’s suspected of a brutal murder in his own time, but all he remembers is the blood, the knife, and the smell of death.He’s a womanizer, a drunk, and she should kick him out of her life—but he’s traveled 60 years through time in answer to one of her wishes, and she can’t resist his charms. Now she’s willing to risk anything to prove his innocence and win his love.From Library JournalSexy, disillusioned film star Trevor Montgomery walks into a pool one night in 1938, intending to die; instead, he resurfaces in 1998, miraculously called back to life by Adriana Howard's romantic pleas, and discovers that he has become a mysteriousAbut scandalousAlegend in the interim. An old, brutal, unsolved murder keeps the action moving as Trevor searches for the mystery's uneasy answers. In the end, it is the past that must changeAjust a bitAto make everything turn out happily. Humorous and thoroughly romantic, this story is shot through with all the charming decadence of the Thirties Hollywood scene and may appeal to classics film buffs as well as to readers intrigued by the uncommon setting. Berg (Wishes Come True, LJ 5/15/96) lives in Rescue, CA.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.