On his first aborted trip from the twenty first century into 1746, Ethan Caplin, fourteen, meets and falls in love with sixteen year old Eveline Erskine. Imprisoned as a perceived catholic spy, injured and rendered unconscious after an attempted escape, he is helped back to his own time by Eveline who thought him mortally wounded.
Disbelieved and thought mentally unstable by his family, he returns down the same spiral steps seventeen months later. He finds the village of Sandthwaite des