In the present day, Lucienne-a renowned figure in the medical field-returns to the Philippines after purchasing her family's ancestral home. What she expects to be a short, quiet stay turns extraordinary when she is mysteriously transported to the year 1870. There, she meets Luciana, a frail young woman who is her exact mirror image. With the future of Luciana's entire household hinging on a marriage she is too ill to fulfill, Lucienne is asked to take her place. Agreeing to wed an infamous former first lieutenant_who left the military to pursue medicine-Lucienne believes she has only stepped into a temporary, if unusual, life. But when she discovers a series of old letters hidden within the ancestral house, she realizes the truth is far more tangled than she ever imagined.

Father Matthias, a modern-day priest trained to purge the darkest curses, thought he had seen it all-until the night he faced a malevolent force unlike anything before. One wrong step, and he is dragged back to 1944, in the midst of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. Lost in a time not his own, Matthias stumbles upon a secluded village untouched by war... and at its heart, a lonely shrine. There, he meets Hisami-a young woman of ethereal beauty, so pure and gentle that even the cruelest gossip dies in her presence. But the deeper Matthias is drawn to her, the more the truth begins to unravel. Because Hisami doesn't just live near the shrine. She lives within it. And the curse that brought him here... might just be hers.