Dr. Elias Vance is a biochemist on the fast track to a Nobel Prize, a man who isn’t afraid to bend the rules for a breakthrough. His ambition proves fatal when a catastrophic lab explosion cuts his life short. He awakens in the cold, damp squalor of 17th-century Cambridge, inhabiting the body of Liam, a sickly, uneducated young man who has just been taken on as an apprentice by a notoriously difficult and reclusive scholar. His new master is none other than Isaac Newton. Trapped in an era of superstition and burgeoning science, Elias—now Liam—must navigate a world where his advanced knowledge of chemistry and medicine is indistinguishable from witchcraft. As a deadly plague sweeps through England, Liam finds himself in a desperate race against time, using his future knowledge to fight an unseen enemy that the greatest minds of his new era believe is a punishment from God. He must win the trust of the volatile genius who is his only protector, all while trying not to get himself hanged for heresy or alter the course of history in ways he cannot possibly predict.
