Rachel Taylor, a troubled twentieth-century woman, is about to marry a man she doesnt love. Lord Montague, a sixteenth-century aristocrat, imprisoned most of his life in the Tower of London, has lost hope of regaining his freedom. Rachel, forced into his dark turbulent world, wants nothing more than to love this tall, dark stranger, but there is another reason she has crossed over into his dangerous world. Someone else has also beckoned her, and what they want from her could endanger the fragile bond between them, bringing forth from her a past shes tried so hard to forget.