Painting Conservator and Columbia University Professor Dr. Meg Hardwick berates herself for becoming obsessed with a portrait she is restoring of the starkly sensual Elizabethan Era Sir James Winstanley. Suddenly she feels dizzy, spinning, faster and faster ... only to find herself falling into a portal through time sitting on an ornate bench in the long gilded hall of Whitehall Palace in sixteenth century England where she meets the very man she has been lusting after...
When Sir James Winstanley meets Meg, he knows instantly that he is attracted to the lovely woman. There was no gainsaying she was not beautiful, he thinks as he looks at her doubtfully. He did not think she could possibly come from the future. He ponders what his closest friend Sir Shrewsbury tells him. By all the Saints! His confidant must be mad!
