Be careful what you wish for ... .

Chris Copestakes's young life ends in a second filled with twisting metal, shattering glass, and her own terrified cry.

Against all odds, Chris wakes up in the hospital and discovers she's been given a second chance. But there's a catch. A big one. She's been returned to earth in the body of beautiful Hallie DiBarto, the soon-to-be-ex wife of a wealthy resort owner.

Thrust into an unfamiliar world of glittering prestige, Chris struggles to hide her identity and make a new life for herself. But the self-destructive Hallie left a legacy of dangerous secrets and angry people for Chris to deal with. And when she finds herself falling for Jamie DiBarto - a man both husband and stranger - her new life becomes wonderful and precarious. Because lurking in the past, both hers and Hallie's, is a danger that could end it all.

(Originally published as On the Way to Heaven by Tina Wainscott, from St. Martin's Press, 1995)