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The Artifact Hunter

Odessa Pellegrini is a twenty-first century college student. She finds herself interning at a local museum with a mysterious archivist who takes her on a journey to the nineteenth century to prevent one of the museum's most treasured objects from ever being taken from its homeland.

Odessa is the epitome of a perfectly average Columbia engineering student; bright, curious, and driven. She represents many college-age women, especially in STEM fields, and the obstacles they face. The reader will discover the reality, alongside Odessa, that career paths are not linear nor set in stone; in fact perhaps nothing truly is… when Odessa is introduced to time travel.

Odessa finds herself working at the Allen Museum for the summer, in a last-ditch effort to avoid working at home for her Dad, again. To the average visitor, the Allen Museum is everything one expects of a museum: reverent, historic, and monolithic. The Allen Museum, like many modern museums, however, has a past riddled with colonialism and artifact stealing.

While traveling 140 years into the past with Odessa and the mysterious archivist, the reader will discover the true nature of the origin of museums and find adventure in the tropics and history of the Caribbean. Core to Odessa’s story is the human desire to be a part of something bigger than themselves, and for the self-centered college student, an eye-opening adventure will be just the thing to completely change her world view.