In this 33,000-word novella, a man and a woman come to the house at the center of the worlds. The only problem is that they're separated by more than a hundred years.Kurt, a wanderer seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles across an abandoned Victorian mansion. Inside, he becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman in a painting, and in doing so, is caught up in a series of supernatural occurrences that lead him to alternate realities where he meets the same woman in different guises.