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Passenger (Passenger #1) by Alexandra Bracken

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Title: Passenger (Passenger #1) Author: Alexandra Bracken Pages: 496 Genre: Fantasy/YA Release Date: January 5, 2016 Publisher: Disney-Hyperion/HBG Canada Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | B&N | Kobo *Received for review from publisher* Summary ( Goodreads ) passage , n. i. A brief section of music composed of a series of notes and flourishes. ii. A journey by water; a voyage. iii. The transition from one place to another, across space and time. In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. And she’s inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she’s never heard of. Until now. Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods—a powerful family in the colonies—and the servitude he’s known at their hands. But with the a...

Waiting on Wednesday: Passenger (Passenger #1) by Alexandra Bracken

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Title: Passenger (Passenger #1)  Author: Alexandra Bracken  Pages: 464 Publisher: Disney Hyperion  Release Date: January 5, 2016  Summary (Goodreads)  Violin prodigy Etta Spencer had big plans for her future, but a tragedy has put her once-bright career at risk. Closely tied to her musical skill, however, is a mysterious power she doesn't even know she has. When her two talents collide during a stressful performance, Etta is drawn back hundreds of years  through time .  Etta wakes, confused and terrified, in 1776, in the midst a fierce sea battle. Nicholas Carter, the handsome young prize master of a privateering ship, has been hired to retrieve Etta and deliver her unharmed to the Ironwoods, a powerful family in the Colonies--the very same one that orchestrated her jump back, and one Nicholas himself has ties to. But discovering she can time travel is nothing compared to the shock of discovering the true reason the Ironwoods ha...