Somewhere out there, across time and space is a soulmate. No one knows how are why Soulmates and their accounting marks came to be. Those born with marks, in the beginning, were rare and often looked at as demons. As time went on people saw soulmarks as a way to meet their one true love. One was common, more was rear. Those with multiple partners as soulmates were considered the luckiest people. If mate died the other would be there as an anchor. Though those born without marks still fell in love got married had children then moved on. Soulmates mated for life.

1854

San Vangaza, Texas

A rider upon a horse rode through the riverbed of the town named San Vangaza. His master, Mephistopheles had sent him to collect a contract worth a thousand damned souls. As he rode through town he saw the bodies of what remained of the townsfolk, all of them dead...dead due to their own hate, evil, and greed. There was no doubt in his mind that Metastopolize had struck it rich with these poor damned souls. Even the children were dead...The man rode on to the church and dismounted. Walking into the church the rider within him snarled. He picked up the rolled up parchment and felt the evil it contained. this evil was too powerful for even his master. When he mounted his horse to ride out of town, he found  Mephistopheles awaiting him "Well done Carter Slade, you're free to go." Mephistopheles said, "Hand me the contract." 

The former Texas Ranger Carter Slade let the rider free, the rider turned its Nightmare mount and rode off into the night knowing that he could never let the devil get his hands on the contract. For he knew if the Devil ever did so he would create hell on Earth...

For eight years Carter Slade stayed hidden and became the caretaker of the contract, but love has a funny way of finding someone. He fell in love and married a daughter of a Native American chief. His wife Littlepaw was beautiful inside and out, as she told him stories of the Phantom Rider before him. Her own Uncle. In the Spring of 1861, he and Littlepaw welcomed a daughter into the world, though to Littlepaw's people her name was pheta mato or Firebear, to him and the white man as they called those who were forcefully removing them from their lands Kaylann Slade. 

Carter watched as his daughter grows to 5 years before his beloved Littlepaw was killed by a US cavalry officer in cold blood. Carter unleashed the rider on the man. Littlepaw's father Redcloud urged Carter to take his daughter and raise her around his people. Upon the day she left the village behind Kaylann couldn't have looked more broken "Pa, why must we leave grandpa and the others?" she asked

"To keep them safe, you will understand one day my little rose," he said.

Brooklyn, New York 

1936

A woman with dark hair and stunning blue eyes walked down the sidewalk in Brooklyn. She had seen much in her life, had seen her mother's people scattered and broken, her father mourn the loss of her mother while keeping something hidden. When Kaylann turned 18 in 1879 she received her first soul mark over her heart:

~What I do is for you. I don't wish to see you in any more pain.~

Her father told her to go out into the world and find him. Then in 1917, a second mark appeared on her left hip bone:

~Promise me you will look after him while I'm gone.~

She wrote her father about it shortly after helping the allies as a field nurse and soldier in the great war. Her father told her how lucky she was to have two mates out there for her. Then in 1918 the third and last soul mark appeared on her right hip bone:

~I can do this all day.~

Kalyann had three soulmates, three! She wrote her father after she returned home to tell him about it and got the reply of Do I have to come to where you are and put the fear of God into people?

Kaylann had found a small one-room apartment in Brooklyn and was recruited by a dear friend Chester Philips who knew her story for the most part. He had set her up to be under his command in the Strategic Scientific Reserve. Now with war breaking out in Europe Kaylann didn't want to think about finding any of her soulmates on the battlefield. At 75 years she had 3 soulmarks on various parts of her body. Three marks, three different soulmates, a major headache for her father and one hell of a time for her...