Seventeen-year old Piper Hampton visits an old newspaper building, takes a corner into the past, and wishes she'd paid more attention to her history classes.What she does remember is all the TV cop/crime shows she's watched, and with her quick wits and the help of the "good guys" she learns what it's like to be an adult in a world speeding towards war, where love and fear can be as dangerous as the Nazi spies who mistake her for a New York investigator for the German American Bund. Who killed Edwina Blackledge, daughter of a Bund-supporting east coast shipping magnate? And where is the 100K she was taking to New York?