The compelling story of two women, born four centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them Ella Turner does her best to fit in to the small, close-knit community of Lisle-sur-Tarn She even changes her name back to Tournier, and knocks the rust off her high school French In vain Isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, which leads to her encounter with the town's wolfish librarian