The Messenger

Madeline's a sixteen-year-old girl from present day Chicago, who suffers from anxiety and panic attacks stemming from a car accident she was in with her mom. Her mom's body was never found and it was assumed she abandoned her family. On the anniversary of the accident, Madeline's dad gives her a mysterious handbook made by her mom filled with grave etchings, photos, memorabilia, and family trees. But she wants nothing to do with it.
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The next day she's out with her friends waiting on the el train, when she's pushed onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train. She blacks out and wakes up--bloody and battered--wearing colonial clothes: she's the sole survivor of a Native attack on a colonial settlement. When she spots Samuel-- a beautiful, mixed-race, young man tear around the burning buildings and disappear into the forest. *Except for the hot guy--this has to be a nightmare--right?
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Wrong.* Madeline's time-travelled to 1675, during King Philip's War between the Native Americans and the colonists. She's here to be mentored by the Medicine Woman and claim her birthright--to be a MESSENGER--a person who can slip between the folds of time delivering messages that could save the life of one person, or perhaps, many. She tries to live as a young colonial woman, falls into a forbidden love with Samuel, and soon discovers there is another breed of time travelers--dark-souled, deadly Hunters who crave Madeline's new powers and seek to seduce or kill her.

Can Madeline find her way back to the future in time to save herself and Samuel?