Thirteen-year-old Erica Pickins does not want to play the piano--and she definitely does not want to go to England.
But her father must take family and students for a fall semester abroad, and her mother insists she still practice, every day.
In England, their new home becomes Hengrave Hall, a sixteenth-century manor house presided over by a group of nuns.
While exploring with her new friend Pedro, Erica walks through a chamber door.
into the Year of Our Lord 1578.
There she is startled to find.