"For those who were born before or after their time..." That described Pam. She'd always felt that she'd been born too late--there was no chivalry in the world anymore. She'd only wanted to commune with the universe while reading a "moon rhyme" in the antique book she'd purchased from the local New Age shop. She had not expected guests--especially not Jasper and Margaret, summoned one hundred years into the future by the rhyme just as Jasper was proposing to Margaret. Now the displaced visitors insist that they be returned to 1910, and Pam and her roommate Robin agree--an Internet check confirms that Margaret and Jasper were married by year end, 1910. But the rhyme won't work until the next moon cycle, and in the intervening month, forbidden love blooms between Pam and Jasper, and Robin and Margaret. They all know they can't fight the inevitability of history. Margaret and Jasper must return to their proper time, and all must spend the rest of their lives dealing with the heartache of loving someone long since dead, or not yet born. At the appointed hour, Pam re-enacts the recital of the rhyme that brought the time-crossed couples together...but it doesn't work exactly as planned.