Sixteen-year-old Cole Bell's life is interrupted at the least opportune moment when he is jerked out of his body and planted in the mind of a youth in the 1889 wilderness near Laramie, Wyoming. Just as he starts to adjust to life on the frontier, he's jerked back into his 2oth century body. And so it goes for five years as he is seemingly randomly jumping from one body to the other. But trouble is brewing in both centuries and Cole finds the answer to his 20th century ranch's problems in the arms of his great-great-grandmother. With two bodies and half a dozen lovers spread out over 100 years, Cole has his work cut out for him and the love of his life is waiting. Waiting for the cry of the redtail hawk.