Two modern women, Eleanor Jordan and Margery Cobham, born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, have lived their entire lives with an eye toward the dying embers of medieval England. For twenty years, the women have lived and tried to love but are always ensnared by lives lived and ruined before the discovery of America. It seems to be fate's design that they repeat the mistakes of a murdered prince, an exiled duchess, and a burned witch. Yet, it appears, the fate has woken and decided that justice and love can live again, 700 years after it died. With the men that they love, Margery and Eleanor wander the castles and monasteries of the fifteenth century with the ghosts and memories of a forgotten time, trying to redeem themselves for history and even Shakespeare's muse. Can the four of them, with a little alchemical and paranormal help escape the destinies of the unfortunate souls guiding them back in time?