Meet Drew Morgan, a traditional kind of guy, a 1940's kind of guy who wants a traditional wife. He’s sick of the way the people he tries to save keep dying. For once in his life he wants to be a real hero. Meet Ashleigh Schmidt, a career girl who can’t cook, can’t clean, and doesn’t even know women have their place, much less that she should be there. She wants to save the world. Literally … and she needs a real hero to help her.
They could be any couple, except that Ashleigh is born in 2024 while Drew is born in 1913. And, she grew up in a terrible world where Germany won WWII and had a hundred years to force their social experiment on the world. Ashleigh didn't want it, didn't expect it, didn't prepare for it, but she winds up in 1941 right before Pearl Harbor. She’s hurt, near death and Drew saves her. He also falls in love - that’s his cross to bear - while Ashleigh, now his wife, does everything she can to change the outcome of WWII.
Some of the the things she changes have disastrous effects on prewar America, but where they really make a difference is in postwar Germany. That's right - the people Ashleigh left in 2047 chase her all through the book. Luckily she and her friends manage to destroy the time machine when she's blasted back to the past.
Where's Drew in all this? He's not "stuck" in 1941, he's always "been" in 1941, and he struggles to understand the woman he loves. He thinks the best way to stop his wife from BEING crazy is to stop her from ACTING crazy. Literally - he holds her in his arms until she can't fight anymore and stops her. This doesn’t win him any points with Ashleigh.
Luckily, the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor right on schedule, and suddenly, Ashleigh doesn’t seem so crazy anymore. Late December and January finally finds the pair working together to save the world.
Do they do it? Do they save the world, while falling madly in love? Regular romance readers will know the answer to that question – everyone else will have to see for themselves.
