After many trips to many different places and times, everyone meets to try to win the astrolabe. Nicholas’ bad deal with a witch injects some tension: if he doesn't kill Cyrus, he will eventually die by poison. They also visit New York in 1939, which turns out to be languishing in an alternate history of war and destruction, and Petrograd in 1919, in which Czar Nicholas II still lives. They travel separately with various companions through such places as the Vatican in 1499 and Carthage in 148 B.C.E., experiencing real history. Nicholas and Etta also want to find the astrolabe, but mostly they want to find each other again. Both are searching for Cyrus Ironwood, master time traveler, who pursues the elusive astrolabe that will allow him complete control over time travel. She is in love with Nicholas, a biracial ex-slave. Etta is a white violin prodigy who learns that she comes from a family of time travelers. Star-crossed time-traveling lovers Etta and Nicholas, now separated, try to find each other in adventures across the world and history in this continuation of Passenger (2016).īracken plunges right in, filling in back story as she goes.
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