"I survived the slave ship once, Emily. But I will not survive a world where you do not breathe."​Aspiring actress Emily Nicanor thought she was just suffering from severe academic stress while preparing for her national exams. But when a sudden collapse lands her in a Lagos hospital, she wakes up completely anchored to two different centuries. In her dreams, she is trapped on the dark, suffocating deck of the Clotilde, running for her life alongside a brilliant, fiercely protective fisherman named Cudjo.​In reality, she is under the care of Dr. Gerald—a brilliant, devastatingly handsome young medical practitioner who treats her with nothing but freezing, clinical detachment.