When 12-year-old billionaire Zig Zephyr discovers these words in his dead grandfatherтАЩs journal, he has no idea what they mean. But he quickly learns that Alton ZephyrтАФfamous inventor, jewel thief, escaped prisonerтАФhad many secretsтАжbeginning with the lab hidden under his familyтАЩs garden.
And his plans for a time machine.
With the help of an eccentric scientist and his two children, Zig and his friends soon embark on a chase through history, solving a series of riddles Alton left hidden in time. Along the way, they experience some of the most important moments in American historyтАФand learn that old family mysteries sometimes come back to life and danger is just seconds away.┬а