This is the first book in the series on the adventures through time of Nancy Laplante, a Canadian war correspondent and reserve military intelligence officer from 2012. Coming back from her latest work assignment in Afghanistan, Nancy is hoping to be able to take some well-earned vacation time at her lakeside cottage in the Laurentians. She is however abducted and taken back in time, where she finds herself marooned in the past. She will then have to find a way back home, on top of having to survive a brutal war.