Time Trespasser: A Master. His Slaves. A Crack in Time.

Cotton plantation master Jacob Williams has had a heart attack. A peculiar mob of picaninnies materialized in his Great Hall and he collapsed chasing them out. Waking up in a futuristic Memphis hospital, he must accept the impossible has happened; somehow he's slipped through time 175 years to 2012 and now slaves are free and a black president leads the U.S. Perhaps worst of all, Jacob is powerless, destitute, and alone. Roaming the streets of Memphis, desperate to find a way back to his proper life in 1837, it's his female slaves that are foremost on Jacob's mind — especially his new favorite, Sadie. She escaped shortly after he'd had his way with her. Has she been found? Doing his best to ignore the black faces he sees at every turn, Jacob eventually realizes that he — once one of the most powerful men in Tennessee — is being regarded as a street person. Of course, some people have guessed who Jacob Williams is, that a time traveler is in their midst; a pair of doctors from the hospital, a teacher who encountered him in his Great Hall, a sharp-eyed reporter, and Martin Willem, a man with whom Jacob shares an extraordinary bond. Time Trespasser is a gripping tale linking the master/slave days of the pre-Civil War south to 21st century America, where certain truths never really change.