Back Step doesn't just tell a good tale; the development of the book, itself, makes its story all the more fascinating.

This historical novel about a marine from the 1980s who unexpectedly travels back in time to Colonial America was originally written by Master Gunnery Sergeant Burnard Winburn. But when he died, the manuscript was unfinished. His stepdaughter, Marilyn Beverly Worley, recognized a good story in the incomplete pages and knew that one day it must somehow be completed and shared with the world. But how?

Over a decade later, when her hairdresser mentioned another client, Ralph Bates, who was an author and a Marine, Worley didn't think much about it-but this complete stranger to her family would turn out to be the writer who seamlessly finished her stepfather's novel.

In Back Step, when a freak combination of nature and science transports John Williams back in time to pre-Revolutionary War America, he decides he can help the colonists shape the future-without altering it beyond recognition. Experience with him the fears and dreams of both patriots and everyday people in the American colonies as war brews, the United States Marine Corps takes its first steps in the world, and a new nation is conceived in liberty.