William Everard was once a man of the sea. Then a terrifying incident in Egypt at the turn of the nineteenth century cast him out of the English Royal Navy and made him question his sanity. After stumbling into a hidden cave in the Nile valley, visions consumed his mind and directed his every action. When they compel him to commit theft in 1819 London, he is sentenced to the New South Wales prison colony, half a world away. During a hellish five-month sea voyage, William is haunted by the face of a beautiful, troubled woman. He knows what he must do when he reaches Australia: Find the woman. End the visions. Regain control over his mind. But who is she? When Sera Oliver awakes in a desolate, sun-baked land, she has no memory but her name. No possessions except the gold band with curious Egyptian symbols clamped around her arm. A rugged escaped convict claims to know her, and she’s swept into a web of magic and returning memories. In 2015 she was a reformed petty thief trying to live a quiet life away from her crimes when her absentee father bequeathed her the gold band. It hurled her back in time, and cursed her with a powerful magic thought lost two millennia ago. Sera is reluctant to trust William—or anyone in this cruel, unfamiliar time and place—until an ancient enemy crosses continents and centuries to hunt her, and she must turn to William for answers, for life, and for love. Two lives crossed, their souls knotted together…But will their connection bind the fraying strands of time or unravel the world?