Eli Sands is an ordinary kid with an extraordinary talent: the ability to travel through time. On his second adventure, he winds up in San Francisco at the start of World War II, where he’s thrilled to find his missing mother. Unfortunately, Margarite Sands is deeply involved in some dangerous intrigue of her own, and Eli and his cohorts are soon hurled far into the past, where they find new allies in the legendary King Arthur and Merlin.