1999. He appeared to her out of the swirling fog on the cliff's edge, a ghostly figure who seemed somehow larger than life. Dark, handsome, blatantly male, he radiated the kind of confidence that led men into battle and women into reckless choices. But independent-minded Julia Fairfield wasn't about to be coerced into anything, especially not a jaunt across the centuries in search of a miracle. 1818. Abducted from her own time, Julia found herself face-to-face with this flesh and blood incarnation. Gavin MacKinnon was as confounded as Julia about her place in his life, but after a night of passion, they learned that their destinies were inextricably bound together, no matter what the time or place.