John Buchanan didn't expect any problems when he offered to move an antique printing press for a friend. The rotted floor gave out in an old print shop, dropping him and the press into the basement. Injured and trapped, he begins to read an old manuscript that had been beneath the press. As he reads Ann's hand written book, he is drawn into the story. Strange things begin to happen and he dreams as he reads. He is shocked to see his own name as the main character. At home, he reads more and feels he is falling in love with the beautiful young woman who wrote the book. It was impossible, since she had written the book a hundred years before he was borne; but he couldn't stop thinking of her. When he sets out to find the house where she wrote her story, she is there just as he had dreamed of her.