Micah John drifts through life relying on his ability to count cards in the seedy underbelly of Las Vegas. One bad turn has him owing a hundred thousand to an unscrupulous loan shark, with only a week to come up with the cash. He doesn't have time for much of anything, except working and worrying.

He sure the hell doesn't have time for a woman claiming to be from 1794.

Henrietta Knapp is trying to wrap her brain around the fact that she's out of her time. A bolt of lightning has brought her more than two hundred twenty years forward. Why? She doesn't know. Not until Micah John appears.

As mistrust and fear drain away, Micah John and Etta find a love that outshines the bad and the ugly. But will they be given the chance to hold onto a happy ever after, or will the lightning strike again?