SOLVED. Time Travel, Woman Traveler, Mona Lisa Painting Key Gold circlet worn on the Head [s]

[Vicki]

I am looking for a book I listened to in the 1990s. The main character a woman travels back in time and the key to the time travel machine was the gold circlet you see on the Mona Lisa in fact it is she that is being painted. I thought the cover showed that. Somehow there is a knight from the past that comes forward in time to be with her temporarily and at the end she meets someone that looks like him on a plane.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Vicki, are you still looking for this book?

[Vicki]

Yes, do you recognize the storyline?

[Tab]

Vicki, was this a romance, high fantasy, comedy, etc?
Do you remember the villain/struggle/conflict of the story?

[Vicki]

Science fiction and romance. Not a bodic ripper, but the relationship between the knight and the woman was in there. The main story was about the time machine and the rilelry between this woman and the other scientist that worked on the time machine. The Mona Lisa tie in was very clever. The little crown/headband thing was a critical piece of the time machine.

[Kris]

At first glance, A Twist In Time by Susan Squires looked promising, but it was first published in 2010.

[Vicki]

Thank you. I will take a look next time I am at the library. I thought I had read it a lot longer ago than that but the story line sound right.

[Kris]

You're welcome. By the way, Google has a longer preview (30 pages) than Amazon.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=Y-oVH...

[Daphne]

The thing about the plane is definitely at the end of Jude Deveraux's A Knight in Shining Armor.

[Vicki]

Ok, it appears I had combined the two stories in my mind (which by the way made for a really good story). You were both right which is amazing. It was the combining of A Twist in Time and A Knight in Shining Armor. Thank you both for solving the mystery. No wonder I could not find the book!