Captives of Time

Orphaned by the brutal murder of their parents, Anne and her gentle but mute brother suffer great hardships as they travel across a dangerous, pestilence-ridden Europe to their uncle, an armorer and clockmaker, and, after his death, to a distant city to deliver the commissioned plans of his precious clock.Set against the turbulent, apocalyptic world of medieval Europe, this richly textured novel follows the odyssey of Anne and Niklas Valens, orphaned by the murder of their parents and rasied by their uncle, a clockmaker, who teaches Anne the secrets of his craft