Lou-Anne Dolan and Josie McAllister are best friends and have been since they were eleven years old. Now in her twenties, Lou-Anne, recently divorced, lives in California and is pouring her time and energy into a new career. Josie, and her brother, Paul, are the closest thing to family that Lou-Anne has. Josie, also in her twenties and ever creative, owns her own jewelry and craft store in Belfast, Maine. Her business is successful and her love life is looking up Josie recently came to the realization she was falling in love with the soldier she had been dating, Scott. Both girls long for their annual vacations together. This year Josie has the opportunity to travel to Arizona on business which provides perfect time for a week-long adventure together. Happiest together, Josie and Lou-Anne venture down to Tombstone, Arizona to get a taste of the Old West in the Town Too Tough to Die. Both girls fall instantly in love with Tombstone; with the history, antiques and reported ghost sightings. Neither could predict how a simple afternoon of sightseeing in the Bird Cage Saloon Museum would drastically change their lives forever. Josie disappears from modern day Tombstone, leaving Lou-Anne desperate to find her friend. Josie struggles with the realization she has somehow traveled back in time and must eventually come to terms with her new surroundings. As a reader will be reminded, as you travel the journey with Josie and Lou-Anne, that often times we are too busy in life to see what is really important. We must often slow down, stop, or back up to allow what is important to be forefront in our lives. It is during Lou-Anne and Paul's search for Josie that they realize what is truly important. During Josie's journey and unsuccessful attempts to return to her own time she finds herself falling in love with an 1880's rancher, Braeden Weller, who had been kind and helpful from the moment he found her crumpled on the floor. You will smile at the loving friendship between Josie and Lou-Anne. You will feel deeply for Lou-Anne and Paul as they come to terms with the loss of Josie. You will smile as Josie's life falls into place in an era she did not belong. You will see, as the story comes to an end, how on rare occasion, fate mercifully steps in and brings each of us to exactly where we need to be.