Going Home, Again - The Synopsis

Going Home, Again is the story of Emily Ann Franklin, a middle school history teacher from Salisbury Maryland. Emily is dating a guy named Jake, a computer tech at PRMC. She has two best friends - Amy works at the Nabb Research Center and has almost finished her doctorate in Colonial history. Nat is a nurse at PRMC, and the one who introduced Emily and Jake.

Emily and Amy create this awesome colonial immersion program for middle and high school students in Wicomico County Maryland. They get to spend two weeks in the summer, living as Maryland settlers did, on the grounds of the Furnace Town Heritage Museum outside Snow Hill, Maryland. At the end of a terrific two weeks, a freak accident happens and Emily finds herself lost in the woods.... and soon discovers that the cabin isn't the only thing that's gone. Her whole life has been flipped upside down and shaken. When she stepped out of that cabin door, she stepped into 1733.

She's hired as an indentured servant for a local farmer named Luke, obviously an ancestor of her boyfriend Jake. She soon discovers ways that she can fit in, and learns to love not only the life she is living but the people around her. Before long, Emily and Luke are married and her memories of her life before walking out of that cabin are starting to fade.

Of course, things can't be easy in colonial Maryland, can they? Deaths, fires, and losses are commonplace and Emily lives through it all. Then there are trips, long and arduous compared to the twenty-first century, to spend time with Luke's relatives in Annapolis, to meet new friends in Williamsburg, to New York and Boston. In time, Emily learns that there are others like her, other time travelers. And she learns that she will go back to her own time. In fact, she could do it whenever she chooses. But the way to go back isn't easy and isn't reversible.

Will she choose to go back? Will she stay where she is? Is the return trip inevitable, and if so what will happen when she returns? Well, you'll have to read the book to find out!