Angela Taylor owes her life to the Texas Ranger who rescued her from a band of no-good renegades. The problem is that he'd pulled her out of danger—and straight into the twentieth century. Now Angela's as far from Texas, 1864, as she could be, stuck with a disbelieving man too handsome from her own good.

She's either a woman out of time...or completely out of her mind. Dallas Masterson isn't sure what to believe. From her crazy clothes to her feisty ways, he's almost convinced that this sassy, smart-mouthed woman fought Comanches, buried her fiance, ran from the law and stole to survive...especially when she steals his horse to try and get back to the cave where he found her.

Now, both Angela and Dallas are discovering that when it comes to things like the past—and falling in love—there's no place to go but the future.

Joan Johnston is a New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of forty-eight award-winning historical and contemporary novels and novellas. Outcast (MIRA Books, July 2009) is the first book in the Benedict Brothers/Taggart Men series. Johnston received a B.A in theater arts from Jacksonville University, an M.A. in theater from the University of Illinois and graduated with honors from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. She has been a theater director, a drama critic, a college professor and an attorney on her way to becoming a full-time author. She lives in Florida and Colorado.