"No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar--a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey--she felt overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl--it was she. How could it possibly be true? Janie...

As the younger and plainer sister of a frequent beauty contest winner, fourteen-year-old Scottie-Ann has always had mixed feelings about such competitions especially when she finds herself a reluctant contestant in the Marsh Mid Princess Pageant.

Attempting to break free from the oppression of women in nineteenth-century England, sixteen-year-old Devonny steps through time hoping to find the power to change her fate.