The Girl Who Sleeps in the Moon is an Odyssey as told through six stories intertwined throughout the three-part series. Book one follows the heroine Emilia in the 1950s, who appears to be an average young lady to all who look. However, she frequently experiences strange occurrences, leading her to believe she is a witch. When others begin to get injured around her, she becomes frantic to discover answers to what is going on and how to manage these powers within her. She is unsure if she is a good or bad witch, and slowly her life begins to fall apart. When Emilia discovered a book in her family library, she hoped it would provide her with answers, yet it appeared that the Fates had other intentions for her. Instead, this mysterious book raises more questions, making her desire to stay within the book and learn everything she can about the two people the story follows. The book brings Emilia to the past, revealing the love affair of a lonely king and the war nurse he has loved his entire life, but tragedy and politics have kept them apart. No matter what our King does, he can't seem to reclaim his childhood love, and even if he could, he might be startled to discover she isn't as eager as he hoped. Not only is he prepared to go to battle to get her back, but he is also willing to give his life. Emilia has to balance her life in the real world and watch the lovers' lives play out in the book she is sucked into every night. The more she reads, the more she aches to have the man she desperately loves but whom society deems unfit. Going against the odds, Emilia and Dawson try to navigate their own love story. This medium romantic fantasy set in the 1950s which frequently feels like a historical romance as time is warped and Emilia is thrust into the past. The tale progresses through centuries, and as the passionate love stories take center stage, you get to see the plot pushed forward by the characters' love for one another with no shortage of heat.