Cortez, Colorado, present day. Someone was looting the ancient Anasazi ruins at Black Mesa-and it was Kurt Richards' job to stop them. Of course, most of the damage had been done a century before, when settlers first discovered the ruins. But there was no way Kurt could change the past-until he slipped down a cliff face and into a time he had only imagined... Cortez, Colorado, 1890. When he cannot find the modern city of Cortez, Kurt has to accept the unbelievable. But he may be able to change the future when he stumbles upon the Lazy H ranch—where the recently widowed Olivia Hamilton struggles to hold on to her land. Without Kurt's help, she could lose her property—and the ruins that sit on it—to a greedy banker. As their friendship blooms into passion, Kurt is determined to prevent the loss of Olivia's home—and the loss of his own heart to a woman who lives in another century...

Sheriff and single mother Taylor O'Brien has enough worries as it is, what with spearheading a campaign for her re-election as sheriff, keeping the peace in her Montana mountain town, and raising her ten-year-old son. The last thing she needs now is a complicated romance.... Then into Taylor's life wanders Sam Evans, a ruggedly handsome cowboy who looks like he just stepped out of the late 1800s. As if his clothes aren't strange enough, Sam has never tasted a french fry, jumps at the jingle of a phone, and has never seen a woman in pants, let alone a lady-sheriff. The fact is, he did just step out of the nineteenth century—through a time-travel change. By traveling through time, Sam had hoped to forget his woman troubles for a while. But it was over a hundred years ago that he swore off women and time has a way of changing one's mind.