The Travels of Dr. Rebecca Harper Past and Present

Rebecca Harper-Buchanan has built a life she never expected to live. Stranded in the 1800s, the former modern-day veterinarian is now a frontier doctor, ranch wife, and mother on the Cattle Creek Ranch near Virginia City, Nevada. She has learned to survive without electricity, antibiotics, or certainty. She has even found love in a century that was never meant to be hers.

But one loss has never healed. She left behind her daughter.

Years ago, Rebecca searched desperately for a way back to her own time. When she finally returned, her family had already moved on. Choosing the past—and the man she loved—cost her the child she never stopped missing.

Then the impossible happens. Lauren Harper, now an adult veterinarian in her own time, finds the same mysterious portal in a mountain creek and crosses into the nineteenth century. Mother and daughter are reunited at last—face to face across more than a hundred years.

Their reunion is everything Rebecca ever dreamed of … and everything she feared.

Lauren cannot stay. Her fiancé, her life, and her future all exist in another century. She plans to return home in only a few days.

Then a rockslide changes everything.

A massive boulder falls into the creek and blocks the portal. The passage between centuries may be gone. Lauren may be trapped in the past just as her mother once was.

Now both women face an impossible question:
Should they fight to reopen the path home … or accept the lives they now have?

As they ride the range, treat patients, attend church, and share long-buried memories, each must confront truths about love, sacrifice, and belonging. Rebecca must face what her choices cost her daughter. Lauren must decide whether the future she left behind is truly the one she wants.

History surrounds them—frontier towns, ranch life, and the dangers of a world where survival is never guaranteed. But the greatest conflict is not time travel.

It's family.

Because sometimes the hardest journey is not across centuries…