Gus Childers has left the nineteenth century and gone back through the Shimmering, hoping to find his long lost family after forty-six years. However, the world he discovers is not what he was expecting. His new friends, Daniel and Emily Lane, have stayed behind looking to make a new life together in the 1800s. As they settle into their new life on the homestead given to them by Chief William Colbert, they search for the life they have always wanted. A simpler life that they can live to the fullest. Daniel discovers a diary that Gus left behind, which tells about Gus's life along Tennessee's frontier. Unending adventure, obstacles,