Elise Russell was not Jayne Chow, but somehow Jayne Chow was Elise Russell, and she hadn't yet figured out how it happened. She went to bed six months ago as a twenty-six-year-old Chinese-British woman in the twenty-first century and woke up the next day as a blonde, green-eyed teenage white girl called Elise in 1894. Now she has to juggle the hassle of her debut to London society while affianced to a man she finds less than impressive but nevertheless disconcerting when all she really wants to do is explore this new world on the brink of major scientific breakthroughs.