A Few Words About "Paris Time"

There’s a strange mystery regarding the death of Peter Hillyer, renowned figure in the world of research and fact checking. He's found dead, struck by lightning, at the foot of Cleopatra’s Needle, the Egyptian obelisk in Central Park. 

He’s wearing clothes from the late 19th century, has French francs and coins from the year 1887 in his pocket, along with other paraphernalia from the time: a ticket for The Louvre and receipts from Paris dated 1889, including one from the most famous restaurant in Paris, dated October 5, 1889.

Next to his body is an ornate piece of jewelry, which along with his clothes and possessions, are returned to his son, Dalton. The case is closed.

        Eliza Kinkaid, 21, disappears. Her family thinks she’s been kidnapped. Police think she’s a runaway. Her family hires a private detective who finds nothing.  This case is

also closed.

        Seven years pass.

Eliza is declared legally dead. Her sister, Juliet, discovers a journal belonging to her filled with notes and drawings of Paris circa 1889. It also contains information that ties Eliza’s disappearance to the death of Peter Hillyer.  Juliet contacts Dalton, now 28, also a professional fact checker. She wants to hire him to research what happened to her sister. He takes the job. She immediately presents to him an incredible theory as to how his father died and what happened to her sister.

            “Your father found a way to transport my sister back in time to Paris in the year eighteen-eighty-nine,” she says. “I can even pinpoint the date she arrived, October sixth, which was the date the Moulin Rouge opened. I think my sister went to Paris to study with him.”

            Dalton finds her theory preposterous, but after reading the journal, studying the drawings and talking to various experts, he thinks there might be something to Juliet’s theory. If nothing else, he wants closure on the mysterious death of his father.

With the aid of Proctor Newley, a distinguished authority on enchanted historical objects, Dalton comes to believe that his father did indeed help transport Juliet back to 1889. Not only that, he learns that his father actually went back in time to Paris in 1889 for one day.

He discovers that the object found alongside his father’s body is called The Brimstone, and learns about The Brimstone Society -- a secret, centuries old group of wealthy men and women obsessed with time travel.

Also in pursuit of The Brimstone is a grisly mercenary hired by a member of The Brimstone Society with orders to find The Brimstone at any cost, even murder.  Dalton, Juliet and Proctor learn that for the Brimstone to work it needs to be next to a special obelisk in extreme weather conditions.

They gather at midnight by the obelisk in Central Park. It all goes according to plan, until the mercenary appears and grabs the Brimstone just as the lightning strikes, and all four are transported back to Paris, 1889.

When they arrive, Dalton, Juliet and Proctor have The Brimstone and take off. The brutal mercenary, reeling with pain from having been struck by lighting, sets out to find them, and more importantly, The Brimstone, so he can return to the present day.

Ultimately, he tracks down Dalton’s troupe and rends The Brimstone from their possession. He leaves Paris, stranding Dalton, Juliet and Proctor in Paris, 1889.

They have no way to get back.

They must find a way!

They discover it’s an amazing city, more glorious than they ever imagined, but they still have to find a way back to their own time against impossible odds.