While Sophia is preoccupied with sea sickness, Etta has dinner with the crew. To learn more about this newly discovered ability, Sophia and Etta exchange information. Once safely escorted back into their cabin, Sophia reveals that they've time traveled to the past.Įtta learns that this ability is inherited from their parents, which causes her to realize that her Mom must've been a traveler once too. Confused about where she is, she is accidentally pushed into the sea but rescued by Nicholas. She finds herself aboard the Ardent as the guest of Nicholas and his crew. She is led deeper into the museum by a girl named Sophia and they come upon Alice, who is bleeding to death from a bullet wound.Įtta wants to stay and help her but is pushed into a stairwell where she falls through a passage. Etta takes center stage but stops playing after hearing an awful, shrieking sound. Her mother gives her a pair of antique earrings before the show, which her mentor, Alice, notices right before she goes on stage. Tragedy ensues as Julian falls to his death during a thunderstorm, leaving Nicholas stranded in Bhutan.Įtta is to perform at the Met Museum. Nicholas and his step-brother, Julian, journey to a monastery in search of a lost artifact.
But as they get closer to the truth of their search, and the deadly game the Ironwoods are playing, treacherous forces threaten to separate Etta not only from Nicholas but from her path home. Together, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the traveler who will do anything to keep the object out of the Ironwoods’ grasp. In order to protect her, he must ensure she brings it back to them-whether she wants to or not. Now the Ironwoods are searching for a stolen object of untold value, one they believe only Etta, Nicholas’ passenger, can find.
But with the arrival of an unusual passenger on his ship comes the insistent pull of the past that he can’t escape and the family that won’t let him go so easily. Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods-a powerful family in the colonies-and the servitude he’s known at their hands. And she’s inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she’s never heard of.
Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves.
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