Alice is a cheerleader at Chaucer Academy, a suburbanprivate school in the modern U.S. For as long as she canremember, she has felt pressured to live exactly the samelife: same boyfriend, same role, same rules. But when shemeets a mysterious stranger in the middle of nowhere, herlife might just change forever.Jamys is a blacksmith's apprentice in England in 1348.After a torturous childhood, he has finally found a life he is happy in, but when his world is turned on its side by the arrival of both the Black Plague and a beautiful stranger, he will have to find a way to adapt to an entirely new set of circumstances.They're separated by nearly seven hundred years and the world's largest ocean, but as they each deal with their own life-changing crisis, their stories may just be more similar than either of them could possibly imagine.And maybe, just maybe, they each might find a reason tobelieve that holding on to hope isn't such a crazy thingafter all.