In his fifth solo mini-adventure, Max the talking Tonkinese cat, the feline hero of the SHADOWS OF THE PAST series travels back in time to the mid-seventeenth century. He doesn't understand how this has happened until he recognises his surroundings and realises it isn't the first time he's been to this place. Why has he been brought to this tumbledown cottage in the middle of nowhere? All is about to be revealed...