Robert Sweeney is curious when he finds a mysterious bottle bobbing in the surf off Sullivans Island in South Carolina. His curiosity intensifies when he spots something inside the bottle, but finds the swollen cork impossible to remove. When Rob decides to bring the mysterious bottle on his class field trip to the Charleston Maritime Museum, he begins to discover that the bottle is anything but ordinary, and that someone in the museum will do anything to get it. Rob is joined by friends, Joey and Caroline, and nemesis, Freddy, as they begin to uncover a plot that stretches across time and history from the hills of West Tennessee to the banks of Charleston Harbor. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге What Lies Beneath the Whirlpool of Time (Mary Gordon Kerr)