About the book: 1994 / Was she Catalina of Portugal, a princess abandoned by fate to a foreign land to give an heir to the British Crown and find a husband and lover in the person of Charles II? Or is she Noel Van Bredin, a scientist, today's American, thrown with unbridled passion into the arms of the wild lawyer Andrew MacDonald... Bogged down in the intrigues entangling this man, so mysterious and unusual? Or is she the same Beautiful Lady, carrying her love through time who despised the power of centuries?