Laura has grown up in a home rife with secrets and mental illness, and craves a normal family. More than anything in her young life she wanted normal, but the secrets invaded the normalcy she tried to create.

And at age twenty-six when she thought that she had finally achieved the measure of normalcy she craved, and had put all the family secrets away in their pigeon holes, a monumental secret was dropped in her lap when her tea leaf reading grandmother is dying and gives Laura the family journals. The journals date back to the early 1600s and include a family secret that trumps all the other secrets that she has learned, along with family stories that needed to be told. Stories of choices that were made that changed lives and created victims. Secrets that could cost happiness and freedom. Her life would become wrapped up in those secrets in ways that she could never imagine.

The journals tell the story of eleven generations of Laura's maternal family from New England, the Phipps, and prompt visions of the past as she reads them, sending her on a journey through history.

But the end of the journals reveals yet another secret. One that will change everything Laura thought she knew about herself.

In this epic historical fiction, Laura must decide if her visions are a symptom of the mental illness that plagues her father's family, or simply a newly discovered paranormal gift. As she begins to read the Phipps family journals, she is transported back in time via her visions to view historical vignettes concerning;