This is a great book! Because of it's Sci-Fi category, some people won't read this, but it shouldn't be missed. It is a story of a young black woman in 1976 being sucked back into her relative's tumultuous lives of 1815 when slavery was at its worst. Dana,a modern day person married to a white man, has to experience the horrors and reality of slavery if she is to survive and return to her own time. She is "summoned" whenever her very, very great grandfather's life is in danger, and she can only return to our time when she truly believes her life is in danger. On one of her trips into the past, her husband comes with her and is left in the past because he is not with her when her life is in danger and she returns to the present! Excellent reading, and I highly recommend it to everyone!