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Just when Sarah thinks that life is perfect and she&#8217;s happier than she&#8217;s ever been, she awakes from her coma to find herself back in the present alone until she meets David Robb, the handsome nurse assigned to her care, who is the image of her Laird.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently home from a year at University, headstrong Sarah Shand finds herself back in 1886 after being struck by a car and critically injured. Here she meets and falls in love with the man of her dreams, Robert Robertson, the handsome Laird of Weetshill. 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