—I was sixteen when I had my second first kiss...At the end of House of Amber, Sarah makes a choice that changes everything...and now she will have to make that decision again. The situation has changed a lot - for the better - for Sarah and her family : her Aunt Maggie grew up; parents have a happy marriage; her grandmother died at the end of a long, productive and respected life. But other things have changed, too, and not for the better. Growing up in the free country of the Pacific Northwest, Sarah Parsons moved into the Amber House, the Maryland home where her family has lived for generations. It was a place where the colonists lost the Rebellion of 1776, where the American Confederate States still struggles with segregation, and where Sarah is haunted by the shadows of a better world that she knows never existed. Her friend Jackson has similar visions of another world—and together they succeed remember the way things should be and plan a daring mission that will turn the universe upside down again. Sarah must figure out what has changed and why, and how she can resolve everything - how she can find a path to other opportunities.