When thirteen-year-old Carter McGlone removes a medal from around the neck of a skeleton he stumbles across in 1912, he has no idea that fifteen years later that same medal will take him on a journey back in time to 1863, where he meets and falls in love with Helen Jones; comes face to face with seventeen-year-old Kiernan O?Doherty who, some sixty years in the future, will be involved in the murder of Carter's girlfriend, Emmaline; and gets caught up in a minor battle of the Civil War. Take this incredible trip with Carter ?a wild ride through time, war, and romance.