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A Darkly Beating Heart

Author: Lindsay Smith

A Darkly Beating Heart

A Darkly Beating Heart

$34.99

About This Book

A troubled girl confronts her personal demons in this time-travel thriller alternating between present day and 19th century Japan.

No one knows how to handle Reiko. She...

Page Count
272
Genre
On Sale
10/25/2016
Age Range
12-18

Book Details

A troubled girl confronts her personal demons in this time-travel thriller alternating between present day and 19th century Japan.

No one knows how to handle Reiko. She is full of hatred; all she can think about is how to best hurt herself and those people closest to her. After a failed suicide attempt at her home in Seattle, Reiko's parents send her to spend the summer with family in Japan, hoping she will learn to control her emotions. But while visiting Kuramagi, a historic village preserved to reflect the nineteenth-century Edo period, Reiko finds herself slipping backward in time into the nineteenth-century life of Miyu, a young woman even more vengeful than Reiko herself. Reiko loves escaping into Miyu's life . . . until she discovers Kuramagi's dark secret and must face down Miyu's demons as well as her own.

Imprint Publisher

Roaring Brook Press

ISBN

9781626720442

In The News

"Intriguing. . . there is genuine spookiness in Reiko’s slow discovery that her choices are not really her own, and readers will definitely want to see Miyu stopped.—BCCB

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A Darkly Beating Heart

A Darkly Beating Heart

$34.99