Do you remember the first time you fell in love?Read The Messenger (Mortal Beloved, Book One) and feel that beautiful--again.Sixteen-year-old Madeline's meant to fall in love with Samuel in every lifetime. But she meets him for the first time when she accidentally time travels into the past--hundreds years before she's even born!Their relationship is forbidden--Samuel's half Native, Madeline's white. Every rendezvous they share must be secret. Each moment they spend together tempts the odds that they'll be discovered and brutally punished. But their love is fated--they musk risk all.Danger intensifies when Madeline learns she's in the past not only to fall in love, but also to claim her birth right as a Messenger--a soul who can slip through time's fabric at will.Deadly Hunters, dark-souled time travelers, crave Madeline's powers and seek to seduce or kill her. Can Madeline find her way back to the future in time to save herself and Samuel?