Lady Kara Roffe is a young woman living in a world reduced to a medieval level after global plagues ravaged the world for generation after generation until the Golden Time is but a distant memory. Roles for women are limited in this land and Kara is under the mercy of her abusive uncle. Events spiral out of control when Kara travels to Greenestone Keep to deliver a message from her uncle to Lord Hawkstead. Shortly after her arrival at the keep strangers arrive in suspicious circumstances, strangers from a world where time had taken a different path, where airplanes crossed the skies, every third woman does not die in childbirth, and feudal lordship is not the rule of the land.