After trying unsuccessfully to locate information on the matriarch of her family for a series of novels, author Gayle Keeney finally throws in the towel and travels to New York City in search of a publisher. Providence, however, intervenes in the person of the grandson of the famous physicist, Albert Einstein, who, having perfected his grandfather's theory of time travel, offers to send Gayle back in time in search of the necessary information to complete her book. Intending to stay only a short time, Gayle agrees to endure the trauma and uncertainty of time travel. But again, Providence has other plans in becoming her own ancestor. Come along with the author as she begins her exciting journey back in time, reliving the trials and tribulations of Puritan life and the journey to a new land, telling this extraordinary story of one of America's founding families.