In Tudor times, the blow of a knife ended Ankerita's unhappy marriage, and condemned her soul to a living death.

There is a chance to atone for her crime, but 500 years have passed, and the new world she awakens to contains not only the shadows of the past, but also the nightmares of the present.

She is thrown into a desperate flight to stay ahead of police and criminals determined to end her freedom, and the demons who want to drag her back into the silence of the grave.