In High Places - Crosstime Traffic Author:Harry Turtledove In the twenty-first century Kingdom of Versailles, the roads are terrible and Paris is a dirty little town. Serfdom and slavery are both common, and no one thinks that+s wrong. Why should they? Most people spend their lives doing backbreaking farm work anyway.Teenager Annette Klein can cope with this strange world. Here, she+s known as Khadija, ... more »daughter of a Moorish family that does business in the countries north of civilized, Muslim Southern Europe. In truth Annette+s whole family are secret agents of Crosstime Traffic, trading for commodities to send back to the world of our own twenty-first century.Now it+s time for her family to go home to California for the start of another school year. Annette and her parents join a pack train bound for their home base in Marseilles, where the hidden crosstime portal will take them home.But bandits attack their pack train while they+re crossing the Pyrenees. Annette/Khadija gets separated from her parents and knocked out, and wakes up to find herself a captive in a caravan of slaves being taken to the slave markets in the south. She+s in a tight spot. Then matters worsen: her purchasers take her, along with other slaves, to an unofficial crosstime portal . . . leaving open the question of whether Crosstime Traffic will ever be able to recover her.« less