Hurled into 1875, a modern-day schoolteacher finds herself living a legend she's heard about all her life. During her childhood, Christina Forsythe spent hours playing in an abandoned plantation house, Whispering Oaks. She heard multiple stories about the owner, Rainer Thorpe, who was driven insane by someone he cared about. Can Christina overcome her prejudices against mental illness and save Rainer from a nineteenth century torture chamber? Will she find a way back to her century? Will she even want to?