For 11-year-old Lily, sometimes being a girl is a drag. Fortunately Lily's flute teacher, Mrs. Zinn, is a time-traveler. She takes Lily back in time 3,500 years to ancient Crete - when women and men lived in equality.There, Lily finds out what it's like for girls to be important. She also gets lost in the maze-like palace, and has to cope when Mrs. Zinn suddenly disappears. And she has to figure out how to tell the Queen what she knows - that this Cretan culture, and the people who've become her friends, will someday be destroyed and replaced with a male-dominated society.