Annette Klein (b. ca. 2078) was a high school senior who worked with her parents for Crosstime Traffic. Although she was Jewish, the Klein family passed as Muslim traders in an alternate where the Great Black Deaths had killed over 80% of Europe's population, forcing the continent into a near-permanent medieval period. As a Muslim merchant's daughter, Annette caught the eye of a young man from the Kingdom of Versailles named Jacques. Jacques was ordered by Duke Raoul to shadow the Kleins and report back on their activities, although the Kleins were unaware of this. While the family preparing to return to their own world at a portal in Marseilles, Annette (known as Khadija al-Marsawi to the locals) was ambushed by Muslim slavers and both she and Jacques were sold into slavery in Madrid.