Passenger

A passage is a short musical segment that consists of a succession of notes and embellishments.

ii. A voyage; an excursion by water.

iii. The movement across space and time from one location to another.

Etta Spencer, a violin prodigy, loses all she knows and loves in one terrible night. Etta is confident of just one thing after being thrust into a foreign world by a man with a sinister plan: she has gone years, not just miles, from her home. Furthermore, she has received a bequest from a family whose existence she has never heard of, but about which she knows nothing. Right now.

Being at sea and free from the Ironwoods, a wealthy family in the colonies, and the enslavement he endured at their hands, Nicholas Carter is happy with his life. But when a strange passenger boards his ship, he feels the tug of the past, which he can't shake, and his family, who won't let him go so simply. The Ironwoods are now looking for a stolen item that is worth a great deal that they think only Etta, Nicholas' passenger, can locate. Whether she wants to or not, he has to make sure she returns it to them in order to protect her.

Etta and Nicholas set out on a treacherous adventure together that spans decades and countries as they piece together clues left by the traveler who will stop at nothing to keep the item out of the hands of the Ironwoods. However, as they get nearer to the truth about their quest and the deadly game the Ironwoods are playing, evil forces threaten to permanently cut Etta off from both Nicholas and her road home.

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