The Adventures of A Time Spinner

Secrets of the Chocolate House by Paula Brackston

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

It is close to Christmas and Xanthe and Flora's little antique shop is open for business and they are making friends with the tea shop owner Gerri, next door. Liam is also helping out whenever he can. He likes Xanthe, a lot, but she hasn't gotten over her feelings and relationship to Samuel of the seventeenth century.

Xanthe finds out she is a Spinner whose role in travelling through time is to help people. She can hear certain objects sing that beckon her to answer the call. So far her adventures have been fraught with danger. I just hope she will get to experience joyful ones.

Upon finding a copper chocolate pot she gets the impression Samuel is in danger so she goes back in time to save him and is caught up with the secrets of a chocolate house, where she learns there are others just like her: Mistress Louisa Flyte and one dangerous Benedict Fairfax!
This fascinating time travel is an adventure in proportion to witchcraft and I enjoyed every little detail. I love that Xanthe was able to use her talent for singing in the past as well as the present. I also love that she was chosen to be the bearer of the spinner book, just as Mistress Flyte was.