Scraps of Time: Volume 2: Back in Thyme

Scraps of Time, volume 2: Back in Thyme Sam and Nathan have returned safely from their journey back in time to Sherwood Forest, thanks to Sam s gift for time traveling. But Sam wants to continue learning about herbal healing, which she had begun with Lady Marion. She finds a tutor and kindred spirit in Angie Foster. As Angie shows Sam through her workrooms, Sam discovers a mortar, or grinding bowl for herbs, with the initials MF scratched into the bottom. Sam had last seen this mortar in Marion s pantry back in Sherwood Forest. Somehow Angie s grandmother has inherited Lady Marion s mortar. How? Sam and Angie travel back together to answer this question. The mortar has been handed down by generations of Angie s ancestors. Following its path back in time takes Sam and Angie to Chicago during the Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918, then further back to a Russian peasant village during the Crimean War. When the search seems at a dead end, Sam gets help from an unexpected source. Sam learns more about her time traveling gift - how to focus and control it better. But questions still haunt her: Why was she given this power? What is she intended to do with it?