Montana Shootists

A gambler. A heartbroken woman. A rift in time.

Present Day: Abby loved David all her life—enough to enlist with him when he joined the Marines. Two people bound by love, duty, and devotion. Then the unthinkable happened, and he was gone. Now, back on her family's Montana ranch, she rides the foothills trying to outrace the pain in her heart. But when a strange glow pulses from the mountainside, she discovers a fist-sized sapphire—vibrating with heat, humming like thunder. Touching it fractures the world around her, and she wakes in a place that feels familiar yet impossibly changed.
1882: Jake Barrow lives by instinct and the turn of a card. A part-time gambler, full-time hired gun, he trusts omens more than men. While scouting the foothills, he sees a woman tumble from the rocks—clad in unfamiliar clothes, eyes wild with confusion. She's like nothing he's ever seen, and yet something about her feels fated. Jake doesn't need to shuffle the deck to know Lady Luck just dealt him the most dangerous—and irresistible—hand of his life.