Mr. Wicker's Window

When twelve-year-old Christopher Mason watches his mother waste away and his father sail beyond the horizon, the world becomes unbearable. So he wanders the cobblestones of Georgetown, searching for something anything that might feel like escape. He finds it in the cracked window of Mr. Wicker's antique shop, where the old magician has been waiting two hundred years for exactly this boy. The clock turns back, and Chris steps through into 1768, onto the docks where the Mirabelle waits trim and ready, her masts pointing toward a revolution that will reshape the world. But Mr. Wicker's plan requires something from the boy: not just courage, but the willingness to stop running from his grief and become part of something vast enough to matter. This is a story about the territories of loss and the way adventure can teach a boy that facing what frightens us is the only way home.