A young girl awakens to find she has memories from two different pasts, fifty years apart, and both ended tragically when eight years old. She feels different. She is different. She is alive She (April) is warned by 'Travis', who resides inside her head, to trust no-one, not even the Professor, her 'Pa'. April is also under the strict guardianship of Li-Ming, her 'educator'. When transported across America in a specially adapted RV (the CatV), they meet Jack, who befriends April and Li-Ming, appearing when they are in trouble. The journey allows April to discover more about herself, and of other people. Shadowing her are government agents. Also following are the Chinese, who want to abduct her, but are constantly thwarted by mishaps and circumstance, until they get their chance by Lake Erie. The U.S. military, however, wants her killed. Why? When arriving at the destination in Maryland, she finds out who she truly is, and of her previous life/lives. She has to use the skills and the special abilities attained if she is to survive. This novel can be described as a book full of facts into which is woven a fabric of fiction or alternatively a work of fiction that is studded with fact.