Emilia Duvane Treymore wanted more from life than what she knew. At just eighteen years old amid the turmoil of the Civil War Emilia flees Treymore Hall, the only home she knows to pursue a life as an actress on Broadway in New York . But there is something she must do first before she leaves. She must walk the Gardenia garden of her brother's plantation Willow Manor one last time. A garden she has loved since she was a child. But Emilia finds more than a short peaceful stroll through the Gardenia garden when she is transported through time into the 20th Century and finds herself in the unknown world of 1963....