When their middle-aged
father, “Papa,” a retired college professor,
inherits an antique grandfather clock from an uncle
who has been missing for over thirty years, Butzy and
Jude become intrigued by an intricate cryptogram on
the back of the magnificent, Nineteenth Century, British
heirloom. Discovering that the massive longcase clock
is, in fact, a time machine, the children travel to
their father’s past in order to erase a traumatic
childhood experience, inadvertently altering that past
in a destructive way.
As Jude recovers from the physical
aftereffects of a reluctant solo trip into the past
to rescue a friend, Butzy learns not only that “Herbert”
(from “G. Herbert Timepieces, Ltd.”), the
grandfather clock, can send travelers forward in time,
but also that Papa’s long missing Uncle Frank
has been marooned in the future because of his careless
misuse of the antique timepiece in 1969. Faced with
a dilemma, Butzy must decide whether or not to rescue
her great-uncle, her decision made all the more difficult
by the fact that her sister’s very life hangs
in the balance.
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