Frankie Suchet is a modern day vampire working as a bartender in San Francisco. It's not a bad job for a vampire but the problem is that Frankie has been around for two centuries and she's tired. Not only is she tired, she's lonely, and she spends a lot of her time being angry at Henri Foucault, the French duke who first saved her, and then turned her into what she is today. Turning her and then abandoning her, Frankie has never forgiven him and would love nothing more than to be able to go back to that fateful moment that changed her life so that she can avoid being made vampire, while also killing Henri in the process.

Amazingly enough, Frankie gets her wish from a most surprising source. When a beautiful vampire enters the bar one night, Frankie learns that there's a way she can revisit the past and change her future. She takes this chance to go back in time and become Francois Suchet, the innocent young girl she once was.

It's going to be very hard for her to do what she returned to do. Henri is so much more than just a man and Francois is quite aware that he has a lot to offer the right woman. Henri allows Francois to think the worst of him, though, in order to protect his secret as well as to protect himself from what he feels for her. His all-consuming work is rescuing the imprisoned innocents from the horrible dungeons that lead them to the guillotines. If he is to continue to be successful in that endeavor, he must be sure that his secret remains just that.

However, after rescuing Francois from an angry mob, they both feel rising passions within that they hide from each other as well as trying to hide from themselves. Francois, having lost her memory of the future, fears she's losing her mind when she keeps hearing another voice inside her head telling her that she must kill Henri. Yet, how can she kill a man she has come to desire as much as her own life?

This book is quite an engaging and wild ride. Most of the book takes place during a few pivotal days in 1794 France but a clear and brutal look is given to the reader of what the conditions were like for the French during that time. There is plenty of adventure and action with a bit of humor thrown in. There is also sadness, love and a great deal of passion.

I love the way that Susan Squires allows her characters to give in to what they want and to make decisions, while not always "right," are the best ones for those particular characters. TIME FOR ETERNITY was quite a satisfying read and left me wanting more of Henri and Frankie. This is a definite recommendation for lovers of vampires and history because learning history has never been more exciting or fun, or the vampires sexier.