Willa Wynn and Simon Perry traveled back in time together. She used her medical skills to achieve the impossible and helped him rise to power. In return, he promised her a lifetime of faithfulness — just the two of them. She bore him a son, Xavier, to carry on the family line. But by the eighth year, everything had changed. Simon returned from a southern tour with a woman named Yana Hughes, and their son had even started calling her "Aunt." Then Willa saw him tangled up with Yana with her own eyes. Even their son favored Yana over her. Willa felt a deep, consuming betrayal.
