Seventeen-year-old Gavin Hillstone is resigned to being miserable for the rest of his life. Left alone in the world after his parents died in a fire when he was four, he was placed in foster care, which for him meant ending up in an abusive home with an alcoholic adoptive father. Gavin’s only escape is in taking and creating images. His camera is his refuge from the unending torture and isolation of daily life in his “family.” Until he learns by accident that he isn’t alone in the world after all. His father’s parents are still alive and living in Washington DC. When he takes the plunge and travels 3,000 miles to find his grandparents, he learns that they—and he—are part of something much bigger, and more dangerous, than he could ever have imagined. Something that has always put his family at risk and that will now threaten his own life, while forever changing it. He learns that he is one of the last descendants of a small group of Photo Travelers—people who can travel through time and space through images. But his initial excitement turns to fear, when he soon discovers that he and his grandparents are being pursued by the fierce remnants of a radical European Photo Traveler cult, the Peace Hunters. What Gavin has, they want! His adventure will take him to past eras, like The Great Depression and the Salem Witch Trials. Gavin will have to discover who he really is and must make choices that spell the difference between life and death for himself, for the relatives he now knows and loves, and for the girl he will come to love. For Gavin, life will never be the same.

You know you've got it hard when you're the princess of an exotic-not-quite-so-Arab kingdom in the late eighteenth century. Especially when you've got to follow a thousand rules, wear as many itchy petticoats underneath your stuffy gowns and try your hardest to not scratch yourself viciously in the presence of your even stuffier husband-to-be. But a girl's got to do what a girl's got to do. And a princess has got to...well, follow the rules (most of them). Rule no.1: A princess must always be poised and dignified, even in times of distress. Rule no.2: A princess must never sneak out of her window in the middle of the night. Rule no.3: A princess must never be caught hanging from a tree branch in the Imperial gardens. Rule no.4: A princess must never allow herself to be kidnapped by a pack of Rogues. Finally. Rule no.5: A princess must NEVER fall in love with her captor...especially when he is a kindhearted, handsome rogue....