When Samantha Rae Deane's boyfriend drags her along on a liquor store robbery, he is killed, and she is seriously wounded. She makes a daring escape, then finds help from a most unexpected source: Cooper Rowland, a time-traveling visitor from the nineteenth century, who's fleeing a tragedy in his own past. Taking Samantha back to his era is the only way to protect her from the police, but will he be able to cure her wound using just the primitive means available to him there? Will Samantha realize her long-held dream of becoming a novelist? And once these two lost souls fall in love, will they find a way to be together ... in this world or the next?