Cecelia McCreary's life is not what she thinks. Arriving in the 18th century to be at last reunited with her sister, Cecelia struggles to find purpose in the life she's to be restored to.

Traveling alongside her sister and new friends across the isthmus, Cecelia searches for a way to write her own story while seeking answers that might keep them all alive in the process.

Drawn to the single outsider in the group and the familiarness of him, Cecelia will stop at nothing to ensure her destiny is her own to write. The future suddenly within her grasp is not worth sacrificing.