Do you ever wonder what it would be like if you could travel through time? What if you came into possession of an item that suddenly made that possible, what would you do? While on vacation with her family at their cottage, she walks into an antique shop after seeing an old watch in the window display. After hearing the story the store owner was told, she goes home and thinks about it all week, until she eventually goes back to buy it. True or not, she had planned to buy the watch anyway. Knowing that, realistically, the story couldn't be true, she still can't help but wonder if maybe, just maybe, it was a possibility. When her friends arrive, she shares the story with them, and they end up going on the adventure of a lifetime.
So join Clara, Amy, Philip, Jamie and Sara as they travel back in time, to the 1800s.
Sixteen-year-old Madeline’s cheated death once. She was but a baby in a booster seat in her mama’s car when they were rammed off a tall, Chicago parking garage. She lived. Her mama disappeared. But when Madeline’s shoved in front of a speeding commuter train she believes death has claimed her.
Maybe. Maybe not.
Madeline wakes in the warm, dead body of a girl who was slain moments earlier in a brutal raid on a colonial outpost. She quickly learns she has time traveled hundreds of years into the past to claim her birth right as a Messenger – a soul, who if properly trained, can slip through time’s fabric at will, delivering messages that could change one life or many.
But falling into a forbidden love with her soulmate, Samuel, a Native boy, attracts the wrong kind of attention. Rumors of witchcraft and spying could get them killed. Worse - deadly Hunters, dark-souled predators as well as skilled time travelers, crave Madeline's powers. Can Madeline find the way back to the future in time to save herself and Samuel?