While attempting to join up with her lover Matt Jorgensen as he joins the Confederate cavalry, Ginny McBride is hit by a musket ball from a Union rifle. She develops amnesia,losing all memory as to who and where she is. Matt spends his military time trying to find here. When she returns to herself, she in turns tries to find Matt.
This story is the penultimate novel in the Brazos series, challenging the reader to demand more from the author. It is a supernatural Western adventure whereby Matt and Ginny take the reader into a world beyond worlds to keep the reader on the edge of the proverbial seat.
The setting is post-Civil War in which Ginny's ghost haunts Matt and he can only sense that she is alive and searching for him as he is searching for her. It is Matt's spirit that keeps Ginny alive, wanting to find him and also to find here true self as well. Neither one can explain the phenomenon that keep them from giving up their search. They know deep in their souls that they must obey their instincts towards finding each other at all cost.
It is a complete story that also engulfs the western folk lore of Jess James, Cole Younger and Bellle (Starr) Shirley, revealing the true characters in their real life experiences from Carthage, Missouri to Sycene, Texas that made them legends. The story line gives Matt another chance to escape Ginny's ghost and love another, while wealthy cotton mill heiress, Ginny McBride becomes one of the first lady attorneys in America. Ginny also has another chance to escape Matt's spirit and settle down to a family and a successful career. Yet, neither one can escape the tether of fate that binds them to each other.
The author takes us on another roller coaster ride that brings his first five books into a further perspective of our heroes. If you have traveled with the heroes through the first books, you will not want to miss out on this Brazos saga and what happens to each of them on their journey into this mysterious time warp.