“Dreadful weather for travel,” the woman said, arranging her skirts. “Are you going far?” Ellen nodded slightly, keeping her gaze toward the window. “Wilm and…
Don’t go filling your head with foolishness. The younger man fell silent, but his eyes stayed on William, searching for something. Confirmation, encouragement, a sign…
Ellen and William climbed aboard, finding seats in their respective cars, neither daring to believe what was happening. The train lurched forward. Steam hissed. The…
And when that war finally ended, slavery, when the 13th Amendment made bondage illegal throughout the United States, Ellen and William returned not as former…

July 22nd, 1944, Soviet soldiers smash through the gates of a concentration camp in Poland and discover something so horrific that even battleh hardened warriors…
– Part 6
Two tickets slid across the counter, two pieces of paper that represented the crossing from one world to another. Behind her, William waited with the…
– Part 7
A dignified, articulate woman who embodied everything Victorian society claimed to value, yet who had been treated as property in America. Their international activism helped…
– Part 2
In her place stood a young southern gentleman, pale and trembling with illness, preparing for a long and difficult journey. “Mr. Johnson,” William said softly,…
– Part 3
After a moment, the officer turned back to Ellen. You have documentation for him? The question hung in the air like smoke. Documentation, papers proving…
– Part 4
But Wilmington would prove different. Not because of officials or checkpoints, but because of a woman who saw too much. The steamer was smaller than…


