As a history professor, Gabriel had spent his life explaining other people’s pasts. He never imagined that his own past concealed secrets powerful enough to change his present forever.
Awakening from a twelve-day coma and struggling to cope with the loss of his wife, Gabriel feels like a stranger in his own life. Desperate for answers to questions he cannot begin to understand, he accepts an intriguing suggestion from his colleague Helena and agrees to undergo regression therapy.

At first, only disconnected fragments emerge: a blacksmith standing before a blazing forge, surrounded by fire; a sailor on the open sea; a warrior caught in the heat of battle. Lives that, at first glance, could not possibly belong to Gabriel.

But Gabriel soon realizes that he is not simply discovering who he might have been in other lifetimes.
He is awakening something that perhaps should never have been found.