Maude is devastated and blames Jane for running away with Mimi and her departure.Īfter Mimi has been gone for a while, she finally contacts her family while they are in London, England for a spiritual convention for mediums, psychics, etc. Jane gets very sad over Mimi's departure and Thad. He doesn't write to Jane like he promised her. As Jane boards her train to return to Spirit Vale, Thad learns that Jane is only 16, 4 years younger than him. Mimi gets a job as a companion to a wealthy French woman, Ninette, and she goes to travel with her to Europe. In 1911, Mimi and Jane run away to New York City, where Jane falls in love with Thad who is Tesla's assistant. They soon move out of the hotel and into their own house. As the years pass many more things are added to her sign outside the home they share. Everyone comes to see her and get readings and many other things. Maude becomes very well known and is the center and buzz of Spirit Vale. There she changes everyone's name to Oneida Taylor. When they stay in Spirit Vale Maude opens a business where she 'contacts' the spirits and practices the movement known as Spiritualism. The inn is already fully booked, but, Maude 'contacts' the husband of the inn's owner, Aunty Lily, and she lets them stay. Maude moves them to Spirit Vale, where they are going to stay at the inn for a bit. Tesla becomes Jane's ultimate role model and collects newspaper clippings about him over the years. He believes that everything vibrates and at different frequencies, you can travel between time and different worlds. He explains that he has been destroying things and this earthquake machine is one of his ideas. But a man named Nikola Tesla rescues them, and they watch him smash a small device. An earthquake starts, buildings start shaking and Mimi gets a bad headache. They soon take a train to New York city when, suddenly, the ground starts splitting apart and shaking. Their mother decides to go to a little place named Spirit Vale. One day, they go to a park to meditate, and Mimi & Jane go for a walk. Jane's father has recently died of Smallpox, and her mother is in grief. They live in America in the late 19th century. A girl named Jane Taylor lives with her mother and four other sisters (Mimi, Amelie, Emma, and Blythe).

Distant waves by suzanne weyn