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 forever. 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, Nick 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, his 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.

But as they draw closer to each other and the end of their search, the true nature of the object, and the dangerous game the Ironwoods are playing, comes to light-threatening to separate her not only from Nicholas, but her path home…forever.In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Alexandra Bracken Passenger Genre: Author: In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves.

Out of options, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the mysterious traveler. But discovering she can time travel is nothing compared to the shock of discovering the true reason the Ironwoods have ensnared her in their web.Īnother traveler has stolen an object of untold value from them, and, if Etta can find it, they will return her to her own time. Nicholas Carter, the handsome young prize master of a privateering ship, has been hired to retrieve Etta and deliver her unharmed to the Ironwoods, a powerful family in the Colonies-the very same one that orchestrated her jump back, and one Nicholas himself has ties to. When her two talents collide during a stressful performance, Etta is drawn back hundreds of years through time.Įtta wakes, confused and terrified, in 1776, in the midst a fierce sea battle. Closely tied to her musical skill, however, is a mysterious power she doesn't even know she has. Violin prodigy Etta Spencer had big plans for her future, but a tragedy has put her once-bright career at risk.

Passenger by alexandra bracken