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eyes moved to his deeply tanned face, his square jaw line shadowed by a day’s growth of stubble, and dark brown eyes that betrayed none of his thoughts as he moved ever closer.
    Her pulse quickened as she met and held his hard gaze. She couldn’t help but stare. Those penetrating dark eyes drew her in. She blinked, but couldn’t look away. Dear God, she couldn’t recall ever seeing a painting or drawing of a mountain man that looked like this guy. Images of rough looking, bearded wild men came to mind. The man in front of her was quite simply . . . stunning. The feral, masculine virility he projected took her breath away, leaving her head spinning dizzily, and not from dehydration this time.
    “Drink.” He handed her a full water bag. “I wish to be on our way soon.”
    “Where are we going?” She felt tiny sitting on the ground while he loomed over her.
    “I have a cabin less than a day’s walk from here.”
    Aimee stared as a fledgling thought took root in her brain. It couldn’t be him , could it?
    “I still don’t know your name,” she called out quickly when he moved to walk away. He regarded her for a moment with those penetrating dark eyes.
    “I am called Daniel.”
    “Nice to meet you, Daniel. Thank you again for saving my life.” The smile froze on her face when his expression hardened abruptly. His jaw visibly clenched, and his features took on a predatory look. His dark eyes turned even darker. Without another word, he turned and headed into the trees. Puzzled by his abrupt departure and the savage, almost hateful look on his otherwise much too handsome face, Aimee watched him stride away. Shrugging, she couldn’t help but smile to herself. She couldn’t believe her turn of good luck.
    “Daniel will look out for ya.”
    “Does he know you’re a time traveler?”
    “No, and I don’t want him to find out, neither. You gotta promise not to tell him how you got there.”
    Zach Osborne’s son, the man she had been advised to find in the Madison Valley, had found her instead!
    While her rescuer disappeared into the forest, Aimee unlaced her boot and pried it off her foot. “Ouch.” She sucked in a deep breath, then peeled off her sock and gently started poking at her ankle joint. Now that it wasn’t confined in the tight boot, she could actually see her throbbing foot start to swell. She poked a finger in the skin, and watched the indentation it created from accumulated fluid slowly fill again. There was no way now she could get her foot back into that boot.
    As much as it hurt, she moved the joint, palpating with her fingers for fractures. She chewed her lower lip to keep from crying out as she performed her examination. The last thing she wanted was for Daniel to think she was a wuss. 
    With a sigh of relief, she concurred with her initial assessment that she hadn’t broken anything, and that it was just a sprain. For all her lack of preparation for this “trip”, she gave silent thanks that she had at least packed her medical kit.
    However, her kit didn’t contain an icepack. She glanced around for the stream that gurgled nearby. Even as she thought about a way to get there – crawling on hands and knees seemed to be her only option – Daniel appeared with a thick sapling that was forked at one end. He approached wordlessly, and held it out to her.
    “You made me a crutch?” She beamed. “Thank you.” She took the offered stick and pulled herself up to stand. Blood rushed from her head and she fought the dizziness that threatened to overcome her.
    “Use the bushes if you need to.” Daniel motioned curtly with his head to a stand of bushes. “How much longer until you will be ready to go?”
    “I would like to soak my foot in the stream for a few minutes before I bandage it. It’s only a sprain, but I’m afraid I won’t be able to move very fast. I’ll try my best to keep up.”
    Daniel’s eyebrows shot up. The quizzical look on his face left her feeling weak and