The Monastery, 1st Place winner of the 2003 Florida State Association of the NationalLeague of American Pen Women - Unpublished Novel category, is a timely tale ofuntimely reincarnation; a story of men and women, of love and history, ofreligion and, perhaps, fantasy.¿ Time travel with a twist. Rebecca Kincaid, middle-aged,educated, wife, mother, is one morning finally too discouraged to face anotherday. While she sleeps, her soul, adrift on a sea of despair, lifts anchor andrides the tide of time onto the shores of another life.¿ At once, Cecilia, young and beautiful heir tothis wayward spirit, simply appears, dazed and confused in a medieval forest,incarnated before her time. Thus begins a bizarre summer forlittle-known Indian psychiatrist and paranormal researcher, Gurinder Chopak and his British colleague, Nigel Haversham.¿ While Chopak endeavors to unravel thebaffling labyrinth of events separated by nearly six centuries, he andHaversham watch helplessly the incredible mingling of two disparate lives in akaleidoscopic swirl of events, destined to leave one woman with an awesomechoice.¿ Will she pursue to its end ameaningless existence or will she step boldly into the exhilarating passion anddangerous adventure of the next?¿¿