Brilliant. 16 year old Madeleine Blackford of modern- day Chicago was traumatized by an childhood accident that led her mother to abandon her - or did she? I'm not normally a fan of YA, but this was terrific.

After being almost hit by a train, when Madeleine wakes up in Rhode Island in 1675, during the time of King Phillip's War she is sure, at first, she is simply having a very strange dream. And why is everyone calling her Abigail? There's a very cute boy named Samuel as a romantic interest, but most of this is Madeleine trying to figure out what is going on, to help her very pregnant supposed cousin, Elizabeth, and also trying not to get killed by either the natives or being hanged as a witch.

The teenage voice and angst feels right, and the historical sections feel very real, very gritty. Ends in a cliffhanger, for those that are bothered by that kind of thing. I wasn't because the pre-cliffhanger ending was satisfactory enough.