Teenager Annette Klein and her family are secret agents of Crosstime Traffic, sending commodities of the future back to their own timeline. During an attack Annette is separated from her parents, taken as a slave, and her RownersS take her to an unofficial crosstime portal. "Turtledove has proved he can divert his readers to astonishing places I know I'd follow his imagination almost anywhere." --"San Jose"" Mercury News" on Harry Turtledove "One of the genre's leading purveyors of alternate history." --"Dragon" on Harry Turtledove "Readers nostalgic for the juvenile SF novels of Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton will find much to enjoy Turtledove presents his teenaged heroes with a series of moral choices and dilemmas that will particularly resonate with younger fans. This is a rousing story that reminds us that 'adventure' is really someone else in deep trouble a long way off." --"Publishers Weekly" on "Gunpowder Empire"" Harry Turtledove is the Hugo-winning author of many SF and fantasy novels. His alternate-history novels, include the bestselling "The Guns of the South, How Few Remain, " the Worldwar series, and the recent" Ruled Britannia." He lives with his wife and daughters in Los Angeles.