A family secret. A broken clock. A storm. Arabella Becquerel inherited an antebellum plantation house from her great-grandmother. A house overrun with Civil War re-enactors adamant about staying in character and insisting that the year is 1863. Even worse, one of the strangers knows her name and looks at her like she is a ghost. Colonel Augustus Townsend of the Confederate army watches as his men turned what he thought was a deserted plantation house into an army camp. But the lady of the house is not only still in the house, she refuses to evacuate. Not only was she the oddest woman he had ever met, she is also most intriguing. Enveloped in family secrets and never-ending danger, the two of them find sparks quickly turning to flames. Will Arabella and Augustus believe in the impossible soon enough to find true love? Or were they destined to be separated by centuries?