Ariel Buford and Weatherford Profit met at the hot springs in Ojo Caliente in New Mexico Territory. Weatherford’s ma worked cleaning the cabins since she was a Paiute Indian, and Elizabeth Buford was rich, as her husband was an executive for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The two sixteen-year-olds grew fond of each other and ran off into the surrounding hills. Ariel had been treated as a sick and dying child, and Profit, as he liked to be known, did not believe that was the case. He took her to a cave, where they managed to hide until thought dead. After stealing Elizabeth Buford’s carriage and riding to Rio Arriba, Profit and Ariel made money by her singing in a cantina. News spread after three years and both mothers came to see if these two were their children. In an all-out fight to grab the children, Mr. Buford’s men burnt down the house of the two young people, but their bodies were not discovered inside the charred ruins. Amazed that they had not been incinerated, the two ended up in the same cantina twenty years later in Rio Arriba, and don’t exactly know how that happened. Back in town the doctor of Rio Arriba confessed that he was in love with Elizabeth Buford who has been incarcerated in northern New Mexico territorial prison for women for the past twenty years. Will Ariel and Profit do something about her mother’s incarceration? Will the doctor plead with them, since he was in love with Ariel’s mother? Join Profit and Ariel, time travelers, maybe, and see how this confusion of the past and present affects not only their love, but others as well.