Eadan MacMurough can see the future—the one where he is alone and the one where he finally meets the woman who will be his wife. It has been long ten years. On the carriage ride home from the meeting of The Society for the Advancement of Science, Eadan is plagued by the beginnings of a crippling vision. At last he is to meet her. She is a laughing beauty with auburn hair. Gelasia Cabot is the woman of his visions, only she is traveling with her fiancé. What is a harmless kidnapping when one is assured the woman is the love of his life?