ER nurse and herbalist Seraphina Laurent descends from a line of women abandoned by their men and doomed to loneliness and longing. While assisting at the Weld House Museum, she is captivated by a portrait of the handsome Colonel Dr. Aaron Weld before she suddenly collapses. Seraphina wakes in 1862 Virginia during the Civil War, contraband of the Union Army. But when Weld appears and notices her rare beauty and healing skills, he's determined to elicit her help and to make her his. However, Seraphina isn't ready to become the loved and left, a certainty unless they can bridge time.