Fourteen-year-old Georgie Sheppard always felt he was different. Plagued by strange occurrences since early childhood, nothing was ever normal for him. Highly intelligent and studious, he has been a constant target for bullies. The situation, however, moves far beyond the scope of his usual daily torment as an increasingly bizarre series of realistic dreams take him back to the end of the 19th century. Facing dark forces that he cannot even begin to comprehend, Georgie embarks on a perilous journey, one where the fabric of time, and reality itself, may be in jeopardy of forever becoming undone.