In the historical fiction novel Passenger by Alexandra Bracken, the main character, Etta is a violinist prodigy living in present day New York City until on the night of her first solo debut when she is thrust, by a stranger named Sofia, into a bright, mysterious portal that brings her onto a boat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean during the year of 1776 with no apparent way to get back home or to her mom. Later Sofia tells her that she was sent by her grandfather, Cyrus Ironwood, to bring Etta to him in New York City for an unknown reason and that Etta inherits the gene of being able time travel through time by portals that have designated times and destination from her mother who was also a time traveler; Etta also meets a few people aboard the ship like Nicholas Carter, the person in charge of their current ship and another time traveler. When they arrive at New York City, Cyrus Ironwood forces Etta to find an astrolabe, which can create portals of any desired year so that Cyrus could save …show more content…
When they reach their last clue, Sofia appears in Damascus, kidnaps Etta, and forces her to find the astrolabe and hand it over to her so that she can change time to her liking. Lastly Sophia ends up finding the astrolabe with her two hired henchmen, but when Nicholas comes to the rescue Etta is shot, the hired henchmen double-cross Sofia, and take her captive while putting Nicholas and Etta in the desert sun; the book ends when Etta disappears suddenly because that is what happens when time travelers die so Nicholas is led to believe that she is dead so he walks toward the next closest village until he sees an aged woman that looks like Etta that it isn’t Etta but it is Etta’s