Shams, the beautiful, headstrong daughter of Moulay Hassan's vizier, is determined to become a doctor. In the years leading up to the fall of Nasrid Granada she is pushed into marrying a man she doesn't love. A sudden tragic turn of events finds her in another world, sailing the Mediterranean, visiting Mamluk Egypt, Italy, Greece, the Ottoman court and the Maghrib. As the Nasrid kingdom of Granada is in its death throes Shams doesn't know what will become of her, her family and the people of her beloved Andalusia.