Alice is a cheerleader at Chaucer Academy, a suburban private school in the modern U.S. For as long as she can remember, she has felt pressured to live exactly the same life: same boyfriend, same role, same rules. But when she meets a mysterious stranger in the middle of nowhere, her life 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 to believe that holding on to hope isn't such a crazy thing after all.