"But where am I? Barlow, Arizona, I'm told-in the year 1877 Okay. I'm either dreaming, dead, or gone crazy. I'm just afraid to ask which " Dive into the old diary of Renee Twining, a modern-day legal assistant in Los Angeles who never expected to end up unmarried. Escape with her back in time to 1877 Arizona where she strangely wakes up one morning. It's a harrowing and entertaining journey as she fights an unrelenting attraction to the rugged and married ranch owner who takes her in, Sam Egan, whom she must get away from for the sake of his adoring wife, Sarah, and their two boys, Gunnar and Paul. But how? Renee finds ways. No, Renee makes ways, all ending in disaster, of course: particularly when she accepts the help of a mysterious stranger in town who takes dangerous interest in the Egans. Renee must learn why before it is too late for the Egans-as well as herself It's an amusing and heartfelt, Wild West adventure that twenty-first-century Renee must pull through with nothing less than a giant leap of faith.