It wasn't supposed to happen like this. Not to her. Not to sensible Beth Ormond. She'd rented Quest Cottage in Cornwall to get away from the hassles back home in the States and to think through her future as a single mom. Tired after driving from Heathrow Airport, she got out of the car. A full moon glowed in the night sky. She hurried up to the cottage but stopped in her tracks as a man emerged from a nearby stand of trees and called out to her.
Alan Tremaine had traveled from eighteen hundred to the present time with a story so bizarre Beth couldn't get her mind around it - unless she disregarded her scientific training and believed in time travel. Could she? Did she want to?
