Cory is living out her 20's in Chicago haunted by the past. Her anxious mind leads her into a dangerous encounter that sends her back through time to a period she is clueless about--post Revolution and pre-Civil War America. Her determination to return to the 21st Century lands her on a flatboat traveling down the Mississippi River to New Orleans with a rugged young man she barely knows. She is seeking an ancestor and an adventure unfolds as Cory discovers the true meaning of love and survival. Her contemporary views clash with 19th Century ambitions and makes her an outlander though she senses that somehow she has experienced all of this before. She is faced with an impossible choice-to stay in a turbulent era when she knows the outcome or return to an America in chaos.