The Last Train to Yesterday: A Wind River Time-Travel Romance (The Light Trilogy Book 5)

A cowboy from 1881. A veterinarian from 2026. Two impossible journeys—and a love strong enough to cross time.

Ethan Cole has always known where he belongs.

On his Wyoming ranch. Beside the younger brother and sister who depend on him. In the year 1881.

But when a violent electrical storm erupts along the railroad tracks outside Wind River, Ethan and his horse vanish in a blinding flash of light—and reappear in the middle of modern-day Houston.

Dr. Maggie Sullivan has seen plenty of strange things during her years as an emergency veterinarian. A bewildered cowboy riding through freeway traffic is a first.

At first, Maggie assumes Ethan is confused, injured, or playing an elaborate role. Then she examines his horse, his saddle, his clothing, and the old newspaper records that describe Ethan’s mysterious disappearance nearly a century and a half earlier.

The truth is impossible.

So is the attraction growing between them.

As Maggie helps Ethan navigate automobiles, smartphones, supermarkets, and a world he never imagined, friendship becomes something warmer. Maggie is confident enough to make the first move. Ethan, shaped by nineteenth-century ideas of courtship and honor, is torn between the desire he feels and his determination to treat her with respect.

But Ethan cannot remain in 2026.

History reveals that after his disappearance, his family lost everything. When another storm offers him a chance to return, Maggie must decide whether to let him vanish into the past—or follow the man she loves into a century where she has no career, no modern comforts, and no certainty she will ever find her way home again.

In Wind River, Maggie discovers familiar faces who understand more about time travel than she ever expected. She also finds a new purpose caring for the horses and livestock of a frontier community—and a love deeper, warmer, and more passionate than anything she left behind.

But when the mysterious light returns one final time, Maggie must choose between the life she once knew and the man who has become her future.

The Last Train to Yesterday is a warm, romantic time-travel adventure filled with humor, heartfelt emotion, familiar Wind River characters, closed-door passion, and the timeless promise that home is not always a place—or a year.

Sometimes, home is a person.