Failed artist Alice Briggs has had a ten year curse since childhood at her isolated lakefront manor house where her ex the bisexual Zete runs an offgrid island campground Escaping her duties as a caregiver and a tragic past of bad luck in drink dance and dangerous letter writing Alices next curse is due in a week With the sudden arrival of an exotic looking gay man named Ace can Alice find a way to escape her troubles and step into today in time