Hurled mysteriously into 1875, a young schoolteacher finds herself living a legend she's heard about all her life. During her childhood, Christina Forsythe spent hours playing in an abandoned plantation house. She heard wild stories about the owner, Rainer Thorpe, who was driven insane by someone he cared about. Christina lands in the middle of a conflict between Rainer and his greedy stepbrother. Sparks fly between Christina and Rainer as he tries to help her find her way home. They fall in love, but can their love transcend two centuries?