Far in the future, when love was unknown and freedom a crime, a lone rebel was desperate to learn what his world had lost. In a daring experiment, he reached into the past--and found a woman unlike any he had ever known.... Marina's fear of this strange and forbidding time was equaled only by her breathtaking passion for the man who had brought her there, the man she called Sam. And she knew it was up to her to teach him--and his cold, lonely world--the meaning of love. In a time where a true union of hearts was outlawed, they dared to break the rules. But what price would they ultimately be forced to pay?