So Close to You
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Rachel Carter launches a mind-blowing time-travel trilogy with her YA novel So Close to You.
Lydia Bentley doesn’t believe the rumors about the Montauk Project, that there’s some sort of government conspiracy involving people vanishing and tortured children. But her grandfather is sure that the Project is behind his father’s disappearance more than sixty years earlier.
While helping her grandfather search Camp Hero, a seemingly abandoned military base on Long Island, for information about the disappearance, Lydia is transported back to 1944—just a few days before her great-grandfather’s disappearance.
Lydia begins to unravel the dark secrets of the Montauk Project and her own family history, despite warnings from Wes, a mysterious boy she is powerfully attracted to but not sure she should trust.
She must unravel a conspiracy to save her family, but can she trust the one boy who holds all the secrets?
A Race Against Time: When a search for answers sends Lydia hurtling back to 1944, she has only days to find her great-grandfather before he vanishes from history forever.Forbidden Love: She’s drawn to Wes, a mysterious boy from the past who seems to know everything. But trusting him could be a deadly mistake.Mystery and Suspense: The dark secrets of the Montauk Project are buried deep beneath Camp Hero. Unearthing them will put a target on Lydia’s back.YA Historical Fiction: Step into the world of 1944 Long Island, where soldiers, secrets, and a world at war create the perfect storm of danger and romance.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Carter's debut, a Full Fathom Five property, uses real-life rumors of a secret WWII-era government project as the basis for a romantic time travel story. Seventeen-year-old Lydia Bentley's great-grandfather disappeared more than 60 years ago in a rumored government experiment known as the Montauk Project. Exploring Long Island's Camp Hero, the supposed site of the project, with her grandfather, Lydia stumbles into a time machine that catapults her back to just before her great-grandfather vanished, forcing her to decide whether to risk saving him and altering the future. Adding to Lydia's dilemma is Wes, a mysterious and handsome Project operative who she is attracted to, but isn't sure is trustworthy. Parts of Carter's plot are too convenient Lydia lands back in time exactly six days before her great-grandfather vanishes, and she quickly befriends her great-great aunt and other ancestors. Readers will be hooked, though, by the colorful details of life in 1944, the palpable feelings between Wes and Lydia, and a cliffhanger twist at the end that sets up the next book in this planned trilogy. Ages 14 up.
