A trip through time is not for the faint of heart… When Mai Ling Chen finds herself in the middle of two warring bands of nineteenth-century miners, she becomes a target. To survive and protect her family's secret, she must brave the cracks in time. This step, more than 150 years into the future, brings her to a strange and frightening world. Should she return to the time that she knows, or stay and start a new life with a man from the future? Alex Tobin, a college history professor, loves the past. He never expected to meet a woman with genuine old-fashioned values. But this fascinating person has secrets that could end their relationship before it begins.