This is the Prequel story of a Time to Ride. Hoping to avoid all the trappings of romance, love, and marriage that seem so expected on Valentine's Day, five close female friends decide to take a motorcycle ride through the Rocky Mountains instead of celebrating the dreaded holiday. Through circumstances beyond their control, they find themselves trapped in a different time and place. Can they find a way home or are they stuck living without the modern conveniences they are accustomed to? At first, the simplicity of the time seems attractive and love seems possible for once. When the new adventure wears off will they be driven to find a way back to their own time? Will they change their perspective on finding true love? Is it a time to acclimate to a slower way of life or will the lack of their normal ways of decorum convince them that it's A TIME TO RIDE?

Something unbelievable happens on a Continental Divide Valentines Day ride. Anya Burrows finds herself and four friends transported to the past. Will Anya find a way to survive in this small mining town of Dillon, Colorado? Victor Yates mines for a living, carving out a life for himself and his son since his wife died. After a terrible accident, his son will be wheelchair-bound, except this new woman in town says otherwise. Anya is different from the other women who seek Victor’s attention. When she claims she can heal Gab’s injuries, Victor takes notice. Is he falling in love with Anya because she can help his son? Or is she just what he needs? Will Anya accept Victor’s proposal to court? With such extreme circumstances before them, will they discover that with true love this is the perfect Time to Heal?

Jackie Lynn Peterson lost herself and her confidence while married and never found them again when divorced. Convinced romance is not for her, she joins her friends on a Valentine’s Day ride into the Rockies. Possibly trapped forever in the past, will she allow herself to fall in love with the handsome, kindhearted doctor, or will she stay committed to finding a way home? Can love conquer all when the obstacles are this big? Will she decide this is where she can find the Time to Renew.

Betrayed and misused by her ex, Ashley Winters wants nothing to do with love or marriage until she accidentally ends up in the past with her four female friends who only wanted to avoid the Valentine’s Day hoopla. Now she has three options: the handsome diner owner, Norse Evander, with whom she has so much in common; the sheriff, Dale Cole, who causes tingles down her spine every time he’s around; or to go back to 2022. If a real possibility is presented for them to return to their own time, will she make the right choice? Whatever will she do when it is Time to Choose?

Nicole Terrance, a case worker substance abuse therapist, bears a terrible burden in her heart for the one she could not help. Her ex-husband. Hardened by his cruel disregard for her education and her, in general, she swore she’d never love another man. Until a fateful motorcycle ride through the Rockies placed her in the past where men are gentlemen and women are ladies. Can she live up to these new expectations? Will her fluttering emotions show her the way for the sake of winning Cactus Phil’s heart? A disappointment to his affluent father and betrayed by his best friend, Cactus Phil Clements seeks to prove them all wrong by being the best ranch hand he can be. When five women wander onto the ranch, the one called Nicole speaks to his soul. Somehow his heart knows she’s the one. Will his past stand in the way of him getting to know this amazing woman? What does he have of value to offer her except his undying love? ~ ~ ~ Trigger Warning: Nikki is addicted to nicotine and this story contains a lot of references to her fighting the effects of her addiction.

Christine Parker, aka Parker Longbody, is an author who is enamored with the late 1800s until a strange accident transports her and her friends to a by-gone era. What she had romanticized was in reality unpleasant at best. But how else would she have met the love of her life? Will she opt to endure such an archaic lifestyle for the sake of true love? Montgomery S. Anders is an engineer and scientist who simply tried to right a wrong by traveling back through time. However, he over-shoots his target date by a hundred and fifty years. Utilizing his time in the past he rebuilds a mechanism that just might get him to the date where he can resolve the issue and hopefully make a difference. Will his promise to send the women back to their own time supplant his guilt for accidentally bringing them to this era? Will his heart supersede everything for his love for Christine Parker? Will he stay with her no matter which time she chooses to live.