Three Wishes (River of Time California, Book 1)

Zara Ruiz, a thoroughly modern girl, finds herself transported to 1840 California, and meets handsome ranchero Javier de la Ventura. Soon, she is swept up into the drama of everyday life, living out early Mexican-California history. The question remains: Can the Three Wishes of her heart be granted in the distant past? Or must she return to her own time in order to claim them? More

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. BECAUSE YOU JUST MIGHT GET IT.

Zara Ruiz is a normal California girl on the verge of graduating from high school and thinking about her dawning future. But when dusk brings a shattering loss—and she discovers a priceless object in the shallows of a tide pool—she is thrust a hundred-and-eighty years into the past. There she meets handsome ranchero Javier de la Ventura—who has big dreams and secret sorrows—along with his enchanting family, in a land that is at once familiar, and yet utterly foreign.

Between cattle rustlers, pirates and a growing call for statehood, it is not a peaceful time to be a Mexican settler in young Alta California. But Zara must decide if she's discovered what she longs for most in the past, or if her heart's THREE WISHES can only be found in the present.