An Angel's Kiss

It?s 1988 and Harvard graduate lawyer Tom Metzler is visiting Londonfor the first time. Although on legal business, he finds time to visit the Natural History Museum where, among the cornucopia of treasureshe witnesses something of preternatural beauty that?s to change hislife forever - the sight of a stunningly beautiful young woman. He?selated when their eyes meet and she fixes him with a winsome smile -then deflated when, in an instant and as if by magic, shedisappears.By some incredible coincidence, this vision ofbeauty reappears at Tom?s hotel later that evening. Tom?s delightedyet bewildered when she addresses him by name without the slightestintroduction - and even more so when she tells him that he won?t beflying home to New York with Pan Am as planned. Instead, she informshim that she?s booked him a seat on the TWA morning flight instead asshe hands him the ticket together with a new passport in a new name!The following morning, it?s as if he?s bewitched. Withoutquestioning the strange new arrangement, he dutifully catches the TWAflight home in a trance. It?s only when he arrives at his Manhattanoffice that the enormity of his chance meeting comes to light: no oneat all seems to recognise him. It?s as if he never existed. And then,to add to his bafflement, one of the staff announces that the Pan Amflight on which he was to have travelled has crashed over a towncalled Lockerbie in Scotland. Everyone has died, passengers, crew andmany people on the ground.Someone, somehow has saved his life- but how? And why? Tom finds the answers when that beautiful youngwoman materialises once more and explains that she?s his guardianangel, sent back to earth in human form as a punishment by theCelestial Tribune! Tom falls deeply and passionately in love withImogene, for that?s her name - but physical love is taboo.Nevertheless, he woos and pursues her until finally they makelove, the angel falls pregnant and they set in train a rollercoasterride of romance, intrigue and suspense surrounding a love affairthat?s forbidden by the Celestial Tribune - and by the laws of timeitself!About the AuthorVincent Cobb was born and educated inBlackpool and spent most of his working life in the travel industry.Eventually he moved to London, where he became joint managing director of Thomson Holiday, the giant package tour company, before moving onto head up Club 1830. His first book, The Package Tour Industry, waspublished last year and recounts his many personal experiences in theearly days of travel some humorous and some terrifying.The authorlives in the Home Counties with his wife, Pat. Nemesis is his secondwork of fiction and follows his earlier success with Leave a Light onfor Jesus, a disturbing story of abuse and betrayal.