BLOOD TIES, U.S. Historical Time-Travel A long-lost aunt, two loving ghosts, two people looking for answers, the Civil War and a family legacy all with BLOOD TIES Emma Sorenson's search for a long lost aunt leads her to the ancestral home of Royal Kinsman and a path to Civil War. A story portraying a love so strong that it carries through the Kinsman family from the mid-1860s through generations leading to modern times. Emma travels through three early battles of the American Civil War up to one of the bloodiest days in American history when Royal rescues her at Antietam.