July 4, 2022
After being expelled from school for a crime she didn’t commit, 17-year-old Natasha Clarke is recruited by alluring, enigmatic stranger Braxton to attend Gray Wolf Academy, an isolated, elite boarding school founded by reclusive tech trillionaire Arthur Blackstone. Hesitant, but with no other prospects, she decides to trust Braxton and accompanies him to the academy. There, she’s surrounded by opulence and luxury unlike anything she’s ever experienced, and uncovers the school’s secret initiative to train students in the art of time travel, preparing them to not only combat whatever challenges their trips may bring, but to return from each operation with stolen treasures and artifacts. Natacha flourishes at Gray Wolf, excelling in her studies and slowly developing feelings for Braxton. But when her first trip—an excursion to 18th-century France—reveals Blackstone’s true agenda for training time-traveling thieves, she is set down a dangerous path. Noël (Field Guide to the Supernatural Universe) delicately conjures cutting-edge time-traveling technology, combining it with ancient numerology and mysticism to deliver a meandering series opener couched in wish-fulfilling drama, romance, and adventure. Characters cue as white. Ages 14–up. Agent: Elizabeth Bewley, Sterling Lord Literistic.