Shannan D. Humes

Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning White boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes she's been given a challenge.

While human beings weren’t looking, our lives and relationships took an evolutionary detour, leaving many of us feeling ditched in a harsh, frigid, new world, scrambling for a bit of warmth, and seeking answers to the most pressing questions of our time. Where is all the hostility and tension coming from? Is there something in the water that would explain the extreme behavior that’s unfolding? Why are our relationships more fragile than rice paper and disposed of as easily as molded bread these days?