Caroline and Nathan's former enemy Rasmussen reappears as a magician calling himself the Great Manzini. As Manzini, he kidnaps King Thomas Jefferson the Fourth during a magic show at the Ford Theater and demands an impossible ransom. A time-traveler himself, Nathan understands how the trick was done, but when he confronts the villain, Manzini sends Nathan sixty years into the future. Nathan returns, unable to explain his absence, and is arrested as an accomplice to the kidnapping and possible murder. In vain he tries to explain the kidnapping was a ruse to deflect attention from a greater threat to the nation.
Caroline must rescue the missing monarch...but will she find Thomas is time to prove her husband's innocence and right a hundred-year-old wrong?