Delia Donovan is a young woman who has been living in Heather Harbor, a fictional port town of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States of America. In the year 1929, before the stock market crash and the great depression, is where Delia and her best friend break into a house, leading them to an object that neither suspect is more important than the usual two bits they get for stolen goods. As Delia is chased by a mysterious woman with a hidden face, we follow her through the streets of Davenport where she grew up and goes to try and sell it, and back to Heather Harbor, where she and a handsome man, Mathew Lang, will embark on a trip to New York City, where she gets involved further with The Tenth Cube. Along the way, we'll meet many other characters and go through a variety of different places, where Delia must discover the use of the artifact and, aided by her new friends, to find if and where it must be returned. In just a few days, Delia's life will have changed forevermore.