After several rigorous years of study, Duncan has travelled back to the 1970's to sow some oats and mature. However, his choice of doing that has given him a disability that could make his future a living hell. Though he has finally met someone in this time that he adores, he has to leave to return to his time and family if he has any hope of a cure.Amanda is a dedicated trauma team nurse at a U.S. Naval base hospital. Working daily to save the lives of battered and broken military men, she believes she is immune to the carnage—until they wheel Duncan MacDugall and a fellow team member into the emergency room after an accident. When she realizes this brave, handsome man is all alone, she reaches out to him, and finds her definitions of reality suddenly skewed.