June Farrow attends the poorly attended funeral of her grandmother Margaret, who was afflicted by the family curse.

June receives a posthumous letter from Margaret containing a photograph of a murdered minister standing beside a woman June recognizes as her mother.

June visits the local church and learns a minister's infant, also named June, reportedly died the same day she was found as a baby.

Birdie confesses she has secretly known about the red door for years and urges June to walk through it when it next appears.

Birdie gives June an envelope containing an address, a pressed flower, and a handwritten note reading 'Trust me.'

June walks through the red door at the Hayward Gap Road farmhouse and finds herself standing in a completely different era.

June meets Eamon Stone at the farmhouse, and he is stunned to discover she has no memory of him as her husband.

Eamon takes June to the Farrow flower farm, where she meets her great-great-grandmother Esther for the first time.

Esther tells June that all women in the Farrow bloodline eventually walk through the door, causing time to begin fraying.

Esther reveals that June is only allowed three crossings through time and has already used up two of them.

Caleb questions June at the police station and plays a recording that contradicts her account of the night Nathaniel was murdered.

June and Eamon dance together at the Midsummer Faire, but Eamon pulls away and says it is too painful to be near her.

June asks Eamon whether he killed Nathaniel, and he tells her that she herself was the one who killed him.

June chooses to remain in the past and holds out her wrists for Caleb's handcuffs rather than escape through the door.

June and Eamon hold a second wedding ceremony, celebrating their reunion and a new beginning together.

The story begins with June Farrow attending the funeral of her grandmother Margaret and discovering a photograph that upends everything she thought she knew about her family. Guided by her grandmother's oldest friend Birdie, June eventually walks through a mysterious red door and finds herself transported into an earlier era. There she meets Eamon Stone, the husband she has no memory of, and learns the terrifying rules of the Farrow family curse from her great-great-grandmother Esther. A local sheriff named Caleb investigates June for murder, and the pressure of his pursuit forces her to confront the truth about what she did on the night a minister named Nathaniel was killed. When June finally learns she herself killed Nathaniel and why, she must make the defining choice of her life: escape through the door or stay with the family she has slowly begun to remember. The novel closes with June choosing to remain, leading to a second wedding with Eamon and a hard-won resolution to the curse that has haunted the Farrow women for generations.

The headline events that carry June from her grandmother's death to her choice to stay in the past.

Birdie gives June the family locket watch, a strange piece with four hands instead of two, right after the funeral.

June hears a song persist on the radio even after changing the channel and adds the incident to her episode journal.

June notices unexplained blood in the sink despite having no visible injury and records the episode in her journal.

June discovers her mother Susanna's name on an old marriage certificate confirming that Susanna was Nathaniel Rutherford's wife.

June confides in her closest friend Mason about the hallucinations she has been secretly experiencing for the past year.

June drives to the address from Birdie's envelope and feels a strange, eerie sense of familiarity about the old farmhouse property.

June runs away from Eamon's farmhouse and is spotted by a local police deputy before Eamon quickly intercepts them.

A sixteen-year-old version of Margaret descends the stairs of the farmhouse and warmly embraces June.

Margaret informs June that Annie was left home alone when the previous version of June vanished without warning.

June searches the farmhouse bedroom and finds newspaper clippings about Nathaniel's murder alongside a handwritten list of four travel dates.

June visits Mimi Granger, who describes seeing June running from the river covered in blood on the night of Nathaniel's murder.

Caleb breaks into the farmhouse and removes the newspaper clippings and the travel dates list as potential evidence against the Stones.

Annie disappears in the tobacco fields, sending June and Eamon into a frantic search until Annie calls out for 'Mama.'

Caleb stops the car during June's arrest, throws his handcuff keys to the ground, and lets her go free.

Susanna Farrow's body is exhumed in Jasper, finally confirming that Nathaniel murdered her rather than her having died by suicide.

While the main plot follows June's biggest decisions, a rich layer of secondary events shapes how she gets there, beginning with small but unsettling signs that the curse is awakening. June collects evidence of her mother's impossible past, confides in the people closest to her, and follows a trail of clues that leads her physically through the door. Once she arrives in the past, she must navigate a web of practical dangers, from a suspicious deputy spotting her on the road to a teenage Margaret embracing her with impossible warmth. As she settles uneasily into 1950s Jasper, she uncovers hidden evidence, faces Caleb's escalating interference, and experiences a breakthrough moment of connection when Annie calls her 'Mama' in the tobacco fields. The pool closes with two quiet acts of resolution: Caleb throwing away his handcuff keys and releasing June, followed by the exhumation of Susanna's body, which finally gives her mother the vindication she was denied in life.

The overlooked moments and secondary beats that fill in June's full journey from Jasper to the past and back.

June sees a mysterious male figure at Margaret's funeral whom she is certain is not really there.

June recognizes her mother Susanna's face in the 1911 photograph included in Margaret's posthumous letter beside Nathaniel.

June asks Birdie about Nathaniel and notices that Birdie reacts with unmistakable alarm and evasion.

June visits Dr. Jennings, who has been assessing her hallucinations for patterns and running regular blood tests on her.

June sees a young girl at the Farrow flower farm but cannot bring herself to ask who the child is.

June learns from Esther that it is 1951 and that her mother Susanna has already been dead for years.

Eamon tells June that Annie is his daughter with a previous version of June who then abandoned them both.

June has a vivid recovered memory of first meeting Eamon years earlier when his horse escaped from the field.

Eamon reveals to June that Caleb Rutherford, the sheriff who has been investigating her, is actually her half-brother.

Eamon and Esther reveal that Nathaniel had recognized June during her earlier visit to the past and had been stalking her.

Esther tells June she suspects Nathaniel killed Susanna, noting that Susanna's body was never found to confirm the suicide story.

June and Eamon share a passionate kiss in the tobacco fields before discovering that Caleb has broken into the farmhouse.

June fully remembers the night at the river: Nathaniel holding her underwater before she struck him repeatedly with a rock until he died.

June confronts Margaret, who reveals the loophole that broke the curse and confirms that Annie grew up to become Birdie Forester.

June remembers leaving Annie asleep and walking through the door, finally understanding the sacrifice she made to break the curse.

Every revelation in this pool fundamentally changes what June believes to be true, beginning with small fractures in her perception of reality and building toward devastating disclosures about murder, identity, and love. June moves from noticing a figure who shouldn't be there to recognizing her mother in an impossible photograph, and from questioning her own sanity to understanding the real mechanics of the Farrow curse. Once in the past, each new piece of information redraws the map of who she is: she learns she has a daughter she abandoned, she recovers memories of falling in love with Eamon, and she discovers the brother she never knew existed. The most shattering revelation of all comes when she remembers that she herself killed Nathaniel at the river and why, which finally aligns the two versions of herself she has been struggling to reconcile. This pool closes with June recovering the memory of why she originally walked through the door in 1950, completing the circle and showing that her most painful choice was also her most loving one.

The key discoveries and emotional shifts that reshape June's understanding of herself, her family, and her past.