I have discovered something totally impossible. I will be rich. Celebrated. A hero of science. And yet in truth I am so bewildered that I can only sit for hours in this room and gaze out at the rain. What can I do with such terrifying knowledge? How can I ever dare use it?
Journal of John Harcourt Symmes, December 1846
Jake's father has gone missing and Jake blames his godfather, Oberon Venn. Venn is obsessed with going back in time to prevent his wife's death. Sarah has a mysterious motive for being at the manor. Rebecca appears to be overly helpful. Gideon, Wharton and Piers are all caught up in the drama that is unfolding. All of which surrounds a mirror.
Venn is in possession of an obsidian mirror that allows a person to travel in time, but returning isn't a simple matter.
Jake's dad had been working closely with Venn to discover how the mirror works when he disappeared. Jake has forced his expulsion from boarding school so that Venn would then be forced to deal with him.
Venn has been falling deeper into despair now that it seems impossible for him to go back and prevent the accident that caused his wife's death and now he has lost his best friend in the mirror.
Sarah is an escaped patient from a mental hospital and has begged to be allowed to stay as a servant, but seems to have an interest in the mirror.
Rebecca was just a friendly local driver, but keeps showing up at just the right moment to help in some way.
In addition to time traveling mirrors and excerpts from old diaries there are the fairies and the Forest which once you enter, you may not return.
Though there are a variety of characters at play in this novel, they are all tied together very well. This is the first book in the series, so there should be a lot more development and I'm sure more mysteries before being tied together in the end.
Venn is in possession of an obsidian mirror that allows a person to travel in time, but returning isn't a simple matter.
Jake's dad had been working closely with Venn to discover how the mirror works when he disappeared. Jake has forced his expulsion from boarding school so that Venn would then be forced to deal with him.
Venn has been falling deeper into despair now that it seems impossible for him to go back and prevent the accident that caused his wife's death and now he has lost his best friend in the mirror.
Sarah is an escaped patient from a mental hospital and has begged to be allowed to stay as a servant, but seems to have an interest in the mirror.
Rebecca was just a friendly local driver, but keeps showing up at just the right moment to help in some way.
In addition to time traveling mirrors and excerpts from old diaries there are the fairies and the Forest which once you enter, you may not return.
Though there are a variety of characters at play in this novel, they are all tied together very well. This is the first book in the series, so there should be a lot more development and I'm sure more mysteries before being tied together in the end.