Time Underground (American Epochs #2)

Two boys cross a fallow field on bare, calloused feet, following the North Star. Slave catchers spread across the sleeping countryside, holding taut leashes and lanterns. A bloodhound howls and a shotgun blast cuts the air. The catchers converge on their prey to clamp them back into chains…

Back safely in her own time after time traveling to 1780 to spoil a scheme to destroy the American Revolution, Kristi Connors finds a history tracing her family to 1843…and discovers her ancestors were slaves! Her great-great-grandfather and his younger brother escaped from their plantation and traveled north along the Underground Railroad. But her great-great-uncle, a boy of only eight years, was captured by slave catchers and disappeared into history.

Meanwhile, her former classmate Ty Jordan, voluntarily left behind in 1780, struggles to understand post-revolutionary America. The people of the infant country celebrate their hard-fought freedom with balls, fairs, and crisp, new flags flying from every flagpole. But when slave ships on the Philadelphia wharf fly the same stars and stripes, Ty wonders how “free” the country really is.

Time travel with Kristi and Ty to the American South in 1858, just three years before the slavery question boils into a bloody war. Can they save Kristi’s grandfather and uncle and guide them safely to Canada? Or will Kristi be caught and condemned to chains?