

Not that I exactly want to know it, he told himself. Mom and Dad had no clue that Jonah and Katherine had traveled through time again and again and again, their lives in danger in one century after another.īut even without the complications of time travel and historical danger and intrigue, Jonah wouldn’t have wanted his parents to know how desperate he was to find out his preadoption identity. And Mom and Dad were just around the corner and down the hall, where they were hanging Jonah’s and Katherine’s newest school pictures along the staircase. So the Skidmore family computer was right smack in the middle of the kitchen. Unfortunately for Jonah, his parents were the kind who believed all those warnings about monitoring kids’ computer use.

To keep from actually looking at the screen now, Jonah whirled in his seat to glare at Katherine. There was a good chance that Jonah’s name might be on the list coming up on the computer screen before them. Before Jonah had a chance to reply, she shoved her hand over his, pressing his finger down on the mouse. “Did Google lock up or something? Hit that link again.” “What’s wrong?” his sister, Katherine, said from behind him. I’ll be brave enough in a minute, he told himself. He kept his finger poised over the computer mouse. So surely he was brave enough to call up a list of names on a computer. He’d recently survived time travel, a war zone, betrayal, deception, mutiny, and the near destruction of time itself. Jonah Skidmore took a deep breath as he peered at the, computer screen in front of him.
