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A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith

A Darkly Beating Heart

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Lindsay Smith

Roaring Brook Press · Ebook · October 25, 2016

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

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Genres
Time Travel Fiction, Historical YA - Asia, Historical YA Fantasy
Published
Roaring Brook Press, October 25, 2016

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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.

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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.

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Time Travel Fiction57%
Historical YA - Asia42%
Historical YA Fantasy39%

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Publisher categories

  • Historical YA - Asia
  • Self-Harm & Cutting
  • Time Travel Fiction
Authors
Lindsay Smith
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Published
October 25, 2016
Format
Ebook
Reading lane
Historical YA - Asia