At the age of thirty-one, lovely Jade McConnell was a level-headed scientist with a firm understanding of her own heart and the world around her -- or so she believed until one steamy July night outside a Georgetown restaurant when she had a chance encounter with an unusual young man. Their meeting launched a strange journey propelled by a secret that began 200,00 years earlier on the shores of the Adriatic Sea. Now Jade's perception of reality has been turned upside down, and she's undergone a series of remarkable changes. Something happened to Jade McConnell. Something. But she doesn't know what.