Lynda Carpenter

Yesterday's Child Lynda Carpenter

While on a field trip to Bodie, Ca., schoolteacher Lilly Dey, who is about to be married, steps into a dilapidated whorehouse and is suddenly whirled back in time to 1880, where she finds a "customer." Assuming she is a prostitute, he demands she get into bed. Lilly finds herself living in an era when Bodie was the rowdiest gold mining town east of the Sierra Nevada. Her life becomes entangled with prostitutes and outlaws and a devilishly handsome bounty hunter who shoots her and tries to bury her alive. She learns about love, loyalty and deceit. And she brings to Bodie a slice of twenty-first century boldness and eccentricity. As an assumed hooker, she must deal with the stigmatism of the times while proving to everyone that all women deserve equality. Thinking the love of her life is dead, she is forced to make an agonizing decision when she uncovers a mystery to her past and ultimately a glimpse into the future.