When Sam Miller, an average thirteen-year-old boy, finds a watch on his way home, he soon finds himself caught up in global history and culture as he encounters Decker Bancroft and the Time Spinners.
The Time Spinners have been battling the Revisionist, a being that steals artifacts from various places in history. Their mission is to restore order and preserve time as we know it.
The world the Time Spinners inhabit is our known world, but they have the ability to visit any country in any time period, engaging various languages and cultures.
They can only spend 12 hours in a time period before everything sets into stone as history, meaning they are up against a serious deadline to restore the artifacts and return to their base time.