– Part 5
Just one servant seems light. It was the same observation the woman in Wilmington had made. People were noticing. The pattern was wrong somehow, triggering…

July 20th, 1944. Hours after German officers nearly succeeded in assassinating Adolf Hitler at his fortified Wolf’s headquarters, the Furer continues his schedule as if…
Ellen produced the paper with her left hand, the right still cradled in its sling. The officer examined it, then looked back at her face,…
And when that happened, there would be no helpful stranger to intervene. No convenient excuse to offer. Just Ellen alone, facing someone who might actually…
The sick young gentleman was now part of the scenery, too pathetic to be interesting. But in the rear car, William was facing a different…
The station loomed ahead, its platform lit by gas lamps that cast long shadows across the tracks. Only a handful of passengers waited for the…
This was why their former enslavers never stopped hunting them. This was why slave catchers came to Boston armed with federal warrants. Ellen and William…

April 15th, 1945, southwest of Bergen, Nazi Germany, British tanks roll through the gates of hell itself, Bergen Bellson concentration camp. What they discover will…
The same society that had created her would refuse to recognize her, blinded by its own assumptions about who could occupy which spaces. But assumptions…
Ellen turned away from the counter and began walking toward the train, fighting the urge to run, to hide, to somehow make herself invisible. The…


