Violin prodigy Etta Spencer had big plans for her future, but a tragedy
has put her once-bright career at risk. Closely tied to her musical
skill, however, is a mysterious power she doesn't even know she has.
When her two talents collide during a stressful performance, Etta is
drawn back hundreds of years through time.
Etta wakes, confused and terrified, in 1776, in the midst a fierce sea
battle. Nicholas Carter, the handsome young prize master of a
privateering ship, has been hired to retrieve Etta and deliver her
unharmed to the Ironwoods, a powerful family in the Colonies--the very
same one that orchestrated her jump back, and one Nicholas himself has
ties to. But discovering she can time travel is nothing compared to the
shock of discovering the true reason the Ironwoods have ensnared her in
their web.
Another traveler has stolen an object of untold value from them, and, if
Etta can find it, they will return her to her own time. Out of options,
Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and
continents, piecing together clues left behind by the mysterious
traveler. But as they draw closer to each other and the end of their
search, the true nature of the object, and the dangerous game the
Ironwoods are playing, comes to light--threatening to separate her not
only from Nicholas, but her path home...forever.