They lay... Her heart tore to ribbons. How would she ever let him go now?Japan, 2005. While researching her ancestors, twenty-year-old Isla encounters a vicious typhoon who sends her back in time to 1877, the Satsuma Rebellion. Through a combination of fate and courage, Isla meets her ancestors, as well as Keiichiro Maeda, a samurai she ends up falling for.