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DANGER IN TIME:
A Young Adult Time Travel Mystery
by R. Barri Flowers
Rachel Crane was just six when her older sister, Brooke, died in a car accident ten years ago at the age of sixteen. Rachel often wishes Brooke were still alive and there for her. Just before going to spend the summer with her grandmother, leaving boyfriend Duncan behind in Lake Melrose, Oregon, Rachel runs up to the attic--a place she often goes for imaginary conversations with her sister. A mysterious antique musical clockwatch literally appears at Rachel’s feet. She picks it up, feels slightly dizzy, and finds herself transported back in time to the day her sister died.
Before Rachel can prevent the tragedy from happening, she must convince Brooke and herself that she is not losing her mind or caught up in a dream. After saving Brooke from her fate, Rachel finds herself back in the future, where it appears the whole thing was merely a dream.
Then Rachel realizes she really did travel back in time and, as a result, changed her sister’s destiny to something even more ominous. Brooke is now killed one week later by an unknown perpetrator. While trying to understand the mysterious clockwatch and its origin, Rachel uses it to go back again to try and save Brooke.
Through the power of the watch, both girls end up in the present as sixteen-year olds, with more changes as a consequence. Rachel has an ally in her boyfriend Duncan, a science whiz, who believes her incredible story and wants to help any way he can. But first they must discover the origins of the clockwatch and the Sisters of Time it belongs to.
Meanwhile, Rachel, Brooke, and Duncan face danger when the serial killer who tried to kill Brooke ten years ago has targeted her again in the present, along with Rachel. The girls must identify him before he succeeds with his deadly plans, even as they also grapple with any other possibilities the clockwatch may have in store for them in the passages of time.
GHOST GIRL IN SHADOW BAY:
A Young Adult Haunted House Mystery
by R. Barri Flowers
Three years after her father was killed, sixteen-year-old Peyton Delaney, her mother, Melody, and new stepfather, Vance McIntyre, relocate to Shadow Bay, Minnesota and move into an old Victorian.
They are unaware of the house's dark history--fifty years ago, a jealous husband snapped, murdering his wife, her lover, and sixteen-year-old daughter, before killing himself.
But when Peyton begins to have nightmares about the crime and is haunted by a ghostly girl named Caitlyn, she begins to investigate with the help of the caretaker's cute son, Bryant. As the two delve into the supernatural mystery surrounding the house, they discover that the events of the past are somehow intertwined with the present, putting their lives and parents in danger.
