In book two of the series, Sam Harkins knows something is terribly wrong. Back in his home time, everything should be fine. He's engaged to Avey Riley, the great-granddaughter of Ruth, the girl he loved in depression-era Seattle and his research is nearly complete, but One deja vu incident after another gives him nightmares. Meanwhile, the timkers Vili and Julijana desperately try to patch together the shredded fabric of time as sinister forces plot to alter history. When Sam suddenly is tossed back in time to 1934, and Avey awakens in rural Virginia in 1861, they know someone or something is...

In book one of the series, Sam Harkins, a young man living in modern-day Seattle, discovers he's in 1930-90 years away from home. Wounded, confused and stalked by a serial killer, he's on the run again. Ruth Riley, a rural farm girl, arrives in town with a sewing machine and the clothes on her back. Determined to make good, but frustrated in her search for work, she soon learns the word -seamstress- is a euphemism for prostitute. Desperate, discouraged and penniless, she meets Sam on her first night working in a bordello. Separated by nine decades, can their budding love survive?...