Across the expanse of space and time, love endures—hopefully it’s enough.

Toss together The Time Traveler's Wife and Bloodsucking Fiends, then add a pinch of 2012 and Men Are From Mars, and you’ll have the flavor of CROSSING IN TIME: A LOVE STORY, a smart and sexy work of commercial fiction. 

After watching a friendly stray dog be gunned down for food and her new-found lover die trying to save the last tropical rainforest, a cynical, middle-aged woman must come to terms with her bleak future in a world drowning in garbage and denial.  When offered a one-way trip to her own past, she sacrifices her life (and adored pets) for a chance to change the course of the future (and see her lover one last time).  Arriving twenty years in the past, buck naked and mortally wounded, she has a matter of hours to teach the stunned but enraptured young man how to avert catastrophe: She must get him to fall in love with her parallel—and much younger—self.  Easier said than done because success means losing him to a brainy, twenty-something bitch (her teenage self), and that’s a heartbreaker, save the world or not.

This poignant tale is about falling madly in love when one is too sensible for such things, letting go of morose cynicism when it’s the last lifejacket on a sinking ship, and giving up everything for one last chance to be happy.  It's a coming-of-age story for old fogeys, a how-to-make-love guide for die-hard loners, and a laugh-out-loud tragedy with a hopeful twist. 

True love is the ultimate prize, but a good book will sometimes do.