Chains of Time, Paperback

Across time, a magical battle for freedom...

Terry is a 15 year-old boy in Harlem and the target of a school bully. His younger sister Regina stopped speaking years ago. One brother, Jerome, is the school hero. The other, Warren, is a down-on-his-luck drifter. What they all have in common is a power they have not yet fully discovered, a power passed to them by their ancestor Amara, who is watching them from the past.

But someone else is watching too: the slaver Van Owen, who captured Amara in 1859 and brought her to America. Van Owen is immortal, and he wants her descendants Amara knows they have the power to defeat Van Owen, but only if she can find a way to help them... from 150 years in the past