In High Places

From Turtledove

In High Places, Tor, 2006, is the third novel in the Crosstime Traffic series. It follows the adventures of Annette Klein, who is traveling through a world in which the Black Plague wiped out a greater percentage of the European population. As a result, Southern Europe is under Muslim rule, and Northern Europe is a relative backwater.

On a journey from the Kingdom of Versailles to Marseille with her parents, Klein, along with a local named Jacques are captured by slavers and separated from her parents. The two are taken to another world by renegade Crosstimers who use the Crosstime technology to run a slaving world.

The novel details Klein's attempts to escape back to the world of Crosstime Traffic to reveal the illegal activities.

The Crosstime Traffic series

Gunpowder Empire | Curious Notions | In High Places | The Disunited States of America | The Gladiator | The Valley-Westside War