Her destiny was a moment in time over 400 years ago. And a secret that would destroy her world.Ella Stevens never knew a mother's love. Her fierce independence was the keystone of her identity - unfettered by romantic involvements or family demands - until the day she moved to Germany, and her world began to unravel. There, she discovered the terrible secret her mother died to protect. There, she stumbled onto a hidden time portal that took her to 1620 Heidelberg where the brutal realities of life were not restricted to the poor and the infirm.Fighting to survive in a world she's ill-equipped to understand, Ella is befriended by a convent of nuns who stand in the shadow of the executioner's block of the Warlord Kruger, one of the bloodiest butchers in all Europe. With the aid of a sexy US Marshal, Ella is determined to help her new friends. Along the way, she learns that when it comes to the things that really matter - love, trust and friendship - sometimes the truth is the least important thing of all.