Rebellious at twenty years old, Valencia Sage doesn't want to be an ordinary old housewife with an early marriage and several children. She wants to work and study, and live. She is thriving in the early twenties in Versailles. She has huge dreams and ambitions, and her weary parents soon don't know what to do. Saddened, Valencia spirals deeper and deeper into depression. Her relationships start deteriorating, and although her best friend Cynthia Vervaine tries to help her, she fails miserably. But then young Valencia meets Elijah and Shadow. There's another land- but what? Curious, Valencia starts to unravel the mystery that leads to forever.