N.K. Small
Time Will Tell
eBook
( June 3, 2020)
Seventeen year old Zach Whitford, a veteran of the foster care system, has an angry confrontation with his foster brother and leaves their Brooklyn home, to apply for a summer job in Manhattan. Focused on his destination, he bumps into a man, causing him to drop a package which spills a ruby heart necklace onto the sidewalk. Zach picks it up, and when the sun’s rays bounce from the heart into his eyes, the world as he knows it swirls away transporting him two hundred years into the past.
He lands in 1817 London, still holding the necklace, and is promptly accused of thievery. In the confusion, he drops the necklace and runs. When he stops to catch his breath in a deserted alley, he is surprised by the appearance of a young cockney-speaking boy, who has followed him believing him to be a thief.
The boy takes him to his home in the slums of the St. Giles Rookery where Zach meets his two mates and is given refuge. To have any hope of returning to his own time, Zach must find the ruby heart necklace. But first he must deal with a villain who is kidnapping kids off the streets, and find a way to secure the futures of the three young people who took him into their home and family.
He lands in 1817 London, still holding the necklace, and is promptly accused of thievery. In the confusion, he drops the necklace and runs. When he stops to catch his breath in a deserted alley, he is surprised by the appearance of a young cockney-speaking boy, who has followed him believing him to be a thief.
The boy takes him to his home in the slums of the St. Giles Rookery where Zach meets his two mates and is given refuge. To have any hope of returning to his own time, Zach must find the ruby heart necklace. But first he must deal with a villain who is kidnapping kids off the streets, and find a way to secure the futures of the three young people who took him into their home and family.
- Pages
- 215