After spending almost a year with cave people from an earlier time, a young girl is transported back to the present greatly changed, both by her experience and by the fact that no one believes her.

    Elizabeth Martin is sent there to spend a summer with an aunt who seems more concerned with Robinsheugh's eighteenth-century owners than with her own niece, though a few years back the two of them had enjoyed a warm friendship. To Elizabeth, desperately lonely, unsure of herself and of others, the old house itself offers a strange alternative to misery — but one for which a harsh price has to be paid.

    Elizabeth, an avowed realist, finds herself able to move in and out of the mind and body of a girl who lived one hundred years earlier.

    Six children find themselves transported back several centuries to a time in which the forests around their home were inhabited by Potawatomi Indians.

    stopped! Flies hang in mid-flight, a measuring worm in mid-reach. Not a leaf rustles. Before long Rosemary, a rather timid, proper child, is plunged into an extraordinary adventure-- in the eighteenth century! Who would have thought

    But as she took a short-cut through the woods, she was enveloped in a strange white fog...and when it had passed, beside her stood a coach-and-four with two liveried attendants - who forced her into the coach and made off with her! And suddenly Lee Parks found herself in Fenwick Manor, deep in the English countryside of 1773. And to her horror, she was caught up in a whirlwind of tragedy and suspense: A series of narrow escapes from violent death, in which she was mistaken for the mistress of Fenwick Manor who had mysteriously disappeared. Could Lee find the white fog and return to her own era? Or would she be stalked by macabre death intended for another?