TJ's an ordinary fourteen year old kid with extraordinary problems at home and school. Broken family from his parents' bitter divorce, evil bullies attacking him almost every afternoon, failing grades when he's really a smart kid, boring classes, snobby girls, mean teachers, being cut from basketball tryouts, and few friends. Yes, life is rough for TJ Cockrell.

Then a mysterious green book inexplicably throws TJ into the past. And not just any past, but the untamed forbidding forests of 1802 eastern Tennessee, with savage Indians, wild beasts, bloodthirsty robbers,...

The intrepid time-traveler TJ Cockrell is back But this time it's to rescue his girlfriend, Samantha. Sam's been blasted into the past by the green book. All around her she sees people stampeding in terror. A White House across the way looks like a shell of the famous building she's seen on TV, internet, and magazines. What the devil's going on?

Samantha is catapulted into a fantastical journey. Meanwhile, TJ discovers Sam's been sent into time. But where? When? Trusting the green book, TJ is hurled back, too. Yet Sam's nowhere to be found His own adventure lands him a prisoner of...