This final book in the Joshua's Bride series answers the questions you've all been waiting for: Will love prevail? Will hope remain? Will faith endure? Find out in this timeless story of true love.

It's not easy being Bean. Bean Donohue lives for her guitar, but her mom threw her out of the house during a snowstorm for singing. No way she's going to get permission to go see The Grateful Dead at the Fillmore East. Zak, her almost-boyfriend, will get drafted if he doesn't get into art school, pot makes Bean paranoid, and her best friend can't stop talking about sex. 1970's not for wimps-but neither was 1885...or 1945. So why does Bean keep sliding backwards in time?

Summer 1970: Bean Donohue's sixteen, she's finally got a good band together, and she's crazy in love with her artist boyfriend Zak. She's also about to get the coolest summer job ever, and her impossible mom's conveniently out of town. So why does she keep ending up in 1953...or 1779? And who's that guy with the black ponytail and the Kent State t-shirt? He knows way too much about her. Should Zak be worried-or should Bean?

Remember the poems we used to read at school? 'This is the Night Mail crossing the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order.' 'Half a league, half a league, half a league onward. All in the valley of death rode the six hundred.' There were fun poems like 'The Owl and the Pussycat' and Edward Lear's limericks. There were stories like 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin.' There was stirring stuff: 'Tyger tiger burning bright' and silly stuff like 'Jabberwocky.' not forgetting inspirational poems like Kipling's 'If.' We thrilled to them, read them over and...