Book excerpt: Rosie Chan suddenly finds herself alone in the world: Her fiancé is dead, and her best friend is missing in the mist of Time. An unexpected nighttime call for help from the disembodied voice of her missing friend leads to a series of events which propel Rosie into a spinning vortex of Time. When Rosie tumbles out of the vortex and into the year 904, she quite unexpectedly falls right into love. But the man who breaks her fall and captures her heart has a secret... Can she love him, despite his secrets and their differing worlds? Davyn Nabbodderson is banned from his homeland for a murder he does not know if he committed. He flees to Scotland and seizes Castle Rose Haven, but guilt and loneliness plague him, making his life a bitter existence. Until, that is, Time delivers Rosie to him. But will Time allow him to keep her?