Christmas Past In a freak snowstorm on Christmas Eve, Miguel de Pima was hanged for an unspeakable crime—loving Dorthea McAllister, the beautiful, red-haired daughter of the self-appointed judge of Los Reales. Christmas Future As justice of the peace in Los Reales, Dallas McAllister had seen some strange things, but nothing like a man materializing out of thin air. His clothes hung in tatters around his waist, revealing his smooth, dark-skinned body—a body Dallas found achingly familiar. Miguel claimed to be her long-lost lover, but a de Pima had never loved a McAllister—not since his death a hundred years before.