Versailles, Kentucky Everleigh is a successful, mature human rights consultant who has it all- except love. An enchanted gift from her mother transports her soul back to 1888, to the life of a younger woman legally bonded to marry a man who only wants her inheritance. She falls in love with railroad man Malcolm Steel and has to decide if she would rather go back to her life in the future or fight the rigid Victorian expectations for women to have a life she desires. The story is set in Versailles, Kentucky at a time when steam engines started connecting towns, when society preferred a gilded perfection rather than the reality of humanity, and even a modern woman would endure injustice to save those she loved. This is the first book in the Steam Through Time series.

An elementary teacher crashes her car in the Ohio River and washes up in 1889 with a Scottish farmer trying to revive her. Her great-great-grandmother takes her in and she quickly finds herself teaching in a one-room schoolhouse with the wealthy Brian Everbright offering her a life of luxury if she would be his pet of a wife. Evan came to America to make his fortune with his own braun and his rugged good looks make Lily question what sensible really means. Would either of these Victorian men understand her desire to change the lives of her students through education? Both men are so foreign to her, yet they both catch her heart. Will she follow her feelings or go back to the future?