When a riptide washes vacationing Emeline Hastings out to sea, she thinks it's the end, only to wake up in a world she doesn't recognize or want to belong in - Boston in the year 1770. War is looming in the colonies and being the center of attention for some crazed fairy godmother isn't the best solution to anything! ... Nor is being immediately handfasted to the man staring at her strangely. William Spencer doesn't have time for a relationship. He's fighting to defend his country from the British by supplying munitions to the Colonial uprising. Now certainly isn't the time to have personal ties... and yet nothing could have prepared him from his instant attraction to his new bride, Emeline. What happens to Emeline with the threat of treason is hanging over William's head at every moment? Can she hope for a lifetime of love in this strange new world - or is this second chance just as doomed as the first?