Ivy is Timeless

Ivy Cho is not like other ansipods. Ivy is timeless. Lacking the typical anchors to her society, Ivy can fall through history. When her world starts breaking apart around her, the Philosopher King sends her on a quest to discover the meaning of piety, believing the answer to that will unite space-time and keep the world from falling apart altogether. But as she visits Xanadu and Westminster Palace, ancient Rome and the Great Wall of China, other questions arise: why is Christopher Columbus in the same place as a Nigerian chieftain? Why is there a cowboy in Kublai Khan's court? Why is Emperor Nero sitting in the Roman Colosseum?

A greater puzzle leads Ivy and the world's historical leaders to the Palace of Versailles for the answer-but Ivy must go even farther to confront history's most famous timeless ansipe and restore space-time.