Green-eyed and deceptively fragile-looking, Katelyn's inner strength helped her overcome the loss of two husbands, though the whole ordeal has left her emotionally hollow. Her second husband's suicide has left a cloud of mystery hanging heavily around her. She just can't shake free of it, can't regain her equilibrium. She is through with men and through with love, resigned to spend the rest of her life alone. When Katelyn suddenly finds herself in a century not her own, she struggles to decipher fate's design. Used and abused by Queen Elizabeth herself, Katelyn must use her knowledge of the sixteenth century to satisfy her queen, even to the extent of foiling Robert Dudley's quest to be king. Is her destiny to fulfill a legend, capture the heart of the gorgeous border lord that has represented himself perfectly as the man of her dreams, or save a queen from a fatal mistake?