Linda Lael Millerâs rich imagination, robust humor, and stirring sensuality have earned her accolades as one of the âtwentieth-century maestrosâ (The Paperback Forum) of romantic fiction. Now she creates a tale of love so compelling it soarsâthrough the heart of the Old West, and through time itself.
Seven-year-old Keighly Barrow never forgot the night she spied a boy her own age at her grandmotherâs Redemption, Nevada, mansion. He was staring at her from an antique mirror in the ballroom, standing among gaudily dressed women in an old-time western saloon. Keighly could only discover that his name was Darby Elderâand that he lived a century ago.
Twenty years later, engaged to be married, Keighly inherited her grandmotherâs house. Back before the ballroom mirror, she faces a handsome cowboy whose roguish air radiates trouble. Keighly senses the spirit of Darby Elderâalong with an electric charge of passion passing through the glass...and into her heart. But old news clips declare this outlaw son of a local madam would die in a shoot-out. Keighlyâs magical connection to Darby is too strong not to try and save his life or, if history will not bend, to love him as fiercely as the fleeting moments will allow.