Barbara Maxwell, after losing her father when she was nine, her mother send her and her younger sister, Jacqueline to live with their grandparents for the summer, six years later, but soon after she finds her father's precious pocket watch, given to him by his wife when Barbara was born, she then discovers some secrets left to her by her father before he died, she discovers she is destined to live up to her family legacy and she must accept her quest, to complete her father's work for him. Her journey has begun in this first installment of The Maxwell Chronicles.