When 13 year old Andy Mackpeace lights a mysterious incense stick, he is unexpectedly whisked off to 18th Century Boston to experience an event no history channel could ever replicate With his grandmother's supernatural guidance, he returns safely home. Later, when he and his best friend Roger tempt fate and secretly meet to go on their own time travel adventure, they are interrupted by their nosy friend Miranda Roberts. Andy accidentally drops the stick, and all three are carried back to an antebellum plantation where they remain hopelessly trapped. Andy experiences first hand the true horror of hatred and prejudice when he must make a decision that will change his life. Friendships are tested, broken, and ultimately transformed as these three travelers use their 21st Century wits to battle a 19th Century world.