Dougless Montgomery has tried everything to achieve the perfect balance between self-sufficient and sexy, independent and agreeable-exactly the kind of girl she thinks a man would want. Still, she finds herself weeping upon a tombstone in an English church, rejected by her boyfriend on a vacation she planned. Suddenly, Nicholas Stafford, Earl of Thornwyck appears before her but according to his tombstone, he died in 1564. Despite their shock and the countless differences between a 20th-century girl and a 16th-century nobleman, Dougless and Nicholas are drawn together by a bond that defies reason. Dougless has finally found what she's been searching for: someone who does not seek to change her, who finds her perfect just as she is. But neither is prepared for the adventure that lies before them