Annie Lockwood

Anna Sophia Lockwood, known more commonly as Annie, is a teenage girl, living in 1990s New York. She is a hopeless romantic, and one of the main characters of the Time Travelers Quartet. She is the older sister of Tod, and the daughter of David and Ms Lockwood. She is the ex-girlfriend of a boy named Sean, from her time. She has two friends, Heather and Kelly, who only appear in the first two books. She is in love with Hiram Stratton, Jr, known as Strat, who is from 1895. She spends much of the series trying to be with him after they meet in Both Sides of Time.

Both Sides of Time
15-year-old Annie Lockwood is a romantic girl in 1995, dating the most unromantic boy in her school. She has a plan: make into a romantic, like those who lived in the Stratton Mansion, an remnant of a summer cottage owned by the Stratton family, now turned into apartments and owned by New York. It's the last day of school, and Annie goes to visit the Mansion before it gets demolished. When there, she starts fantasizing about living in the 1890s when the mansion was a home.

That's when she has the first fall.

Then a second.

Then she's travelling in an awful vortex, and then she appears halfway there to the mansion, like a ghost. Once she is fully there, she bumps into a young man, who is Hiram Stratton, Jr. He goes by Strat. She is frightened and disoriented, not believing where she is. She runs out the door and Strat follows her. She finds her bike, and rides it down the Mansion driveway. Strat follows on his bike, and eventually catches up to her. They end up on the beach, after introducing themselves. Annie comes to realise she is in 1895, and also tells Strat she is from a hundred years in the future (1995). They spend more time together, eventually ending up in the village's ice cream parlor. There they meet Strat's best friend, Walker Walkley, called Walk. He is startled by Annie's 1995 attire and manners, but seems to take it in stride.

After ice cream, the three return to the Mansion and meet Strat's younger 14-year-old sister, Devonny Stratton, and their father's ward, Harriet Ranleigh, who is plain, wealthy girl of twenty who's in love with Strat. The girls dress Annie in Harriet's clothes, so she blends into this century. There is to be a party that night. Devonny also mentions the murder of a servant (Matthew) that happened earlier that day (when Annie was arriving).