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The beach at Herculaneum

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Daphne is lost in time, she's been gone for nearly two thousand years. Anne McCarthy, exists in the present day, but she feels dead inside. Trapped in her unresolved grief over the loss of her husband and five-year-old son in …

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Daphne is lost in time, she's been gone for nearly two thousand years. Anne McCarthy, exists in the present day, but she feels dead inside. Trapped in her unresolved grief over the loss of her husband and five-year-old son in a car accident, she tries to insulate herself from all emotion. But she is haunted by disturbing dreams and visions from another language, time, and place. A priest recommends she take a retreat at a convent, where she hopes she can finally find the peace she needs to move forward. When the dreams become more sinister, Anne decides to travel to Rome for answers, soon realizing that her path to healing has only just begun. A story of two woman, separated by time, but joined in spirit.

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"Daphne is lost in time, she's been gone for nearly two thousand years. Anne McCarthy, exists in the present day, but she feels dead inside. Trapped in her unresolved grief …"

— Margaret

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