Rene York was a French Canadian ecologist before the Last Great Plague. Now he is a time-travelling researcher who spends whole lifetimes with his Ojibwe ancestors collecting data on all the planet has lost. A legend leads him to Regency England where he meets the blue-stocking granddaughter of a famous Naturalist, and he falls in love for the first time in nearly 800 years. But history has Livianna Mulgrave dying in a riding accident 4 months after he meets her. And the past cannot be changed. Liv never planned to marry, preferring the freedom of spinsterhood. But a handsome and mysterious stranger leads her into an incomprehensible future world where everything is possible - except escaping her fate.