Charlotte Mackintosh, a best-selling writer who lives as a recluse on an island off the coast of Washington with her four cats, will soon be flying home to Scotland. She will sell her family's old stone cottage, fix up the garden, try to find her missing best friend Bridget, and keep her heart from pattering when she sees Toran, Bridget's kilt-wearing brother.

But what she expects to find and what she does find, in this humorous, touching story are two different things entirely.

"My name is Charlotte Mackintosh. I am thirty-five. I love science. I have degrees in physics and biology. One would think I would work in a lab or teach at a university. I don't. I write time travel romance novels. My ninth book was released four months ago.

For me to be a romance writer is a perplexing joke. What romance? I don't have any in my life, haven't for years since The Unfortunate Marriage.

My late father, Quinn, was Scottish, hence my last name, and his mother had the Scottish Second Sight. She saw the future, all mottled up, but she saw it. Sometimes she didn't understand it herself. I remember her predictions, one in particular when I was seven and we were making an apple butterscotch pie with a dash of cinnamon at her home in our Scottish village.

'You will travel through many time periods, Charlotte,' my grandma said. 'All over the world.'

My grandma was right about time travel. She simply dove into the fictional, book-writing realm of my life without realizing it."

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