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SPARKS OF LIGHT Author: Janet B. Taylor Pub. Date: August 1, 2017 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Pages: 448 Formats: Hardcover, eBook Find it: Amazon , Barnes&Noble , iBooks , TBD , Goodreads      For the first time in her life, Hope Walton has friends . . . and a (maybe) boyfriend. She’s a Viator, a member of a long line of time-traveling ancestors. When the Viators learn of a plan to steal a dangerous device from the inventor Nikola Tesla, only a race into the past can save the natural timeline from utter destruction. Navigating the glitterati of The Gilded Age in 1895 New York City, Hope and her crew will discover that high society can be as deadly as it is beautiful. Book Trailer Courtesy of The YA Book Traveler About Janet:             The 2013 winner of the coveted #PitchWars, Janet B Taylor, has four years' experience writing web content for a major television network fan site (CBS) that garn...

Into The Dim Author: Janet B. Taylor Genre: YA, Historical Fiction, Fantasy Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Release Date: March 1, 2016 Pages: 432 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: When fragile, sixteen-year-old Hope Walton loses her mom to an earthquake overseas, her secluded world crumbles. Agreeing to spend the summer in Scotland, Hope discovers that her mother was more than a brilliant academic, but also a member of a secret society of time travelers. And she's alive, though currently trapped in the twelfth century, during the age of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Hope has seventy-two hours to rescue her mother and get back to their own time. Passing through the Dim, Hope enters a brutal medieval world of political intrigue, danger, and violence. A place where any serious interference could alter the very course of history. And when she meets a boy whose face is impossibly familiar, she must decide between her mission and her heart—both ...