Have you ever known anyone who doesn't seem to fit in her life? What if it's true? What if she isn't supposed to be here? Isabel's soul was yanked from her body at birth and hurled through time into the body of an infant who was never supposed to survive. She lives in the 21st century, lonely and isolated, with no lasting friendships and no love in her life. Her own mother doesn't even like her. All of that changes when two strangers show up at the library where she works with an outrageous tale. She was never intended to be in this place or this life. She belongs in 9th century Britain, betrothed to Prince Alfred of Wessex. She knows she can't believe them, but...Alfred is handsome, his gaze intoxicating. His gray eyes pierce through her loneliness and isolation, through her awkwardness and insecurities, to see the passionate, talented person no one else has ever found. Isabel and Alfred are pawns in a battle between two wizards, Merlin and Malcolm, competitors for the love of the same woman. Malcolm is the one who sent her out of her own time to punish her mother for not loving him. Now he is determined to destroy her body as well as her soul and eliminate her from the world forever. Merlin and Alfred must save her, save her for herself, save her for Alfred, and save her for the future that will never exist if she does not live.