Ella Stevens never knew a mother's love. Her fierce independence was the keystone of her whole identity-unfettered by romantic involvements or family demands-until the day she moved to Germany and her world began to unravel. There, she discovered the terrible secret her mother died to protect. There, she stumbled onto a hidden time portal that took her to 1620 Heidelberg where the brutal realities of life were not restricted to just the poor and the...