Michelle Madow
Series: Transcend Time Saga #1
Publication date: July 27th 2011
Genre: YA Time Travel
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12177772-remembrance
Lizzie Davenport has been reincarnated from Regency Era, England ... but she doesn't know it yet.
Then Drew Carmichael transfers into Lizzie's high school at the beginning of the year, and she feels a connection to him, almost like she knows him. She can't stop thinking about him, but whenever she tries talking with him about the mysteries behind her feelings, he makes it clear that he wants nothing to do with her. Reaching him is even more difficult because she has a boyfriend, Jeremy, who has started to become full of himself after being elected co-captain of the varsity soccer team, and her flirtatious best friend Chelsea starts dating Drew soon after his arrival. So why can't she get him out of her mind?
Even though Lizzie knows she should let go of her fascination with Drew, fighting fate isn't going to be easy.
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Michelle Madow
Series: Transcend Time Saga #2
Publication date: December 8th 2011
Genre:YA Time Travel
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12780764-vengeance
How far would you go to get revenge?
When Chelsea Givens discovered that her ex-boyfriend Drew dumped her to be with her former best friend Lizzie, she'd never felt so betrayed in her life. Then her new friend Shannon tells her she can help set things right. Chelsea's willing to listen, but what Shannon wants her to believe -- that she shared a past life with Drew -- is impossible. And what she wants her to do to get him back … well, it's downright crazy.
Could Shannon be telling the truth? And if she is, what lengths will Chelsea go if it means making Lizzie pay?
Find out in Vengeance, the second part of the Transcend Time Saga.
*Vengeance is the short story that bridges the events in Remembrance and the final novel in the Saga.
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Michelle Madow
Series: Transcend Time Saga #3
Publication date: November 14th 2012
Genre:YA Time Travel
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12933542-timeless
IT'S A RACE AGAINST TIME.
In Remembrance, Lizzie and Drew changed the course of fate so they could be together.
In Vengeance, Chelsea set fate back on its original, deadly path.
Now, strange things keep happening to Lizzie. Things that are omens of darkness to come. A curse has doomed her to die an early death, just as she did in her past life. To make matters worse, even if she can figure out who cast the curse, it's irreversible. There's only one option left for her to save herself. It's crazier than anything she's heard yet, and to do it, she'll need Drew and Chelsea's help.
Because to make things right, they must go back to when it all began ... and Lizzie discovers that the final events in her past life were more sinister than she ever imagined.
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Michelle Madow
Series: Transcend Time Saga Bonus
Publication date: December 18th 2012
Genre: YA Time Travel
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17156778-transcendence
INCLUDED IN THE BONUS PACKET:
- Sneak peak of Remembrance
- Bonus scene for Remembrance
- Deleted chapter from Timeless
- Character extras for Lizzie, Drew, Chelsea, Jeremy, and Hannah
- Author interviews
- Essays written by Michelle Madow about the series
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About this Author:Michelle Madow wrote her first novel, Remembrance, in her junior year of college. Remembrance is the first book in the Transcend Time Saga, a three part series about reincarnation and true love that Michelle successfully self-published. The series was inspired by Taylor Swift's "Love Story" music video. Michelle's upcoming YA trilogy, The Secret Diamond Sisters, about three sisters who discover they are the secret heirs to a Las Vegas billionaire casino owner will be published by Harlequin TEEN in Spring 2014.
Michelle graduated from Rollins College in 2010, cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and the International English Honor Society Sigma Tau Delta. She received the Charles Hyde Pratt Award for Excellence in Creative Writing in 2010.
She lives in Boca Raton, Florida, where she is writing more novels for young adults. She loves reading, spending time with family and friends, traveling, shopping, sunshine, Disney fairy tales, Broadway musicals, and spends way too much time on Facebook and Twitter (@MichelleMadow).
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BONUS
SCENE FOR REMEMBRANCE
Drew
telling Chelsea he won’t be attending the Halloween dance
I
wrote this scene as a homework assignment for a creative writing class. After
finishing the scene, I realized I enjoyed writing from Chelsea’s point of view,
and came up with the idea for Vengeance!
Standing in my walk-in closet, I pulled on my
costume for the Halloween Dance, my heart fluttering as I thought about Drew
sitting on my bed waiting for me to model it for him. Even though we’d been
dating for almost a month, it was still hard to believe that Drew Carmichael
was my boyfriend. From the first time I saw him when he walked into AP European
History in the beginning of the school year, I wanted us to be together, and
everything worked out as I planned. Drew Carmichael and Chelsea Givens … it
sounded perfect, and we were perfect together.
A lot of that had been thanks to Lizzie. I
was lucky to have her as a friend. If she hadn’t let Drew and me come to the
movies with her and Jeremy a few weeks ago, then maybe none of this would have
happened. That night set everything into motion. It was the night Drew kissed
me for the first time. The memory made my cheeks heat up, and I took a few
breaths to relax so I didn’t look flushed when I went back into my room.
I zipped up the back of the short red dress
and twirled around, feeling the light fabric dance around my legs. The dress
dipped low in the front, and the fishnet stockings perfected the look of a
dancer at the Moulin Rouge. It looked hot on me, and I knew it. Drew wasn’t
going to know what to do with himself when he saw me in it. When every piece of
the outfit was in place, I smoothed down the skirt, brushed my fingers through
my hair, and opened the closet door to walk back into my room.
Drew sat in the same place on my bed that he
was in when I left to change. My eyes met his dark ones, and a thrill of joy
traveled all the way up my spine. He was so different from the other boys in
Pembrooke, New Hampshire—much more worldly and sophisticated. He was better
looking than most of the guys around here, too, and he didn’t even have to try.
Right now he looked like he should be modeling for a high-end clothing
catalogue instead of sitting on my bed, waiting to see my outfit for the
Halloween Dance. I also noticed that he looked a little sad—probably because he
missed home. He thought about his past a lot. Transitioning from living in New
York to living in New Hampshire had to be tough, but I was glad he moved here.
He was the best thing that had ever happened to me.
I wanted to jump on the bed and wrap my arms
around him, just to prove he was really here, but there would be time for that
later. For now I spun around to model the outfit, fluffing up the skirt with my
hands and watching him to see his reaction. His lips curved into an appreciative
smirk, but at the same time, there was something off in his eyes. Something …
distant.
He’d been that way a lot for the past few
days. I tried a few times to find out why he seemed upset, but he refused to
admit anything was wrong, so I eventually stopped asking. Hopefully as time
passed and he got used to living in New Hampshire he would relax and not be as
moody. For now, as long as I acted happy and carefree, I hoped my attitude
would wear off on him.
I fluffed the skirt one last time and smiled
at him in a way I hoped was seductive. “You like?” I asked, pulling the bodice
down a little lower so I showed even more cleavage than before. If that didn’t
take the distant look out of his eyes, I had no idea what would.
“No one’s gonna be able to take their eyes
off you all night,” he said.
“I only care that one person’s looking at me
though.” I took a few dramatic steps forward to stand right in front of him and
wrapped my arms around his neck, pulling him closer to me. “I’m the luckiest
girl in the school to be going to the dance with you.”
“About that …” He lowered his eyes, looking
suddenly uncomfortable. “I’m not going to be able to go.”
“What?” I leaned back in surprise, confused
about where this was coming from. “What are you talking about?”
He lifted his eyes back up to meet mine, but
there was a coldness in them that wasn’t there before, making goosebumps rise
over my skin. “My grandparents from London are flying into New York that
weekend, and my dad wants me to go down to see them,” he said, his voice devoid
of emotion, like he didn’t care at all.
“But you can’t miss the dance.” I pouted,
even though I could feel that any attempts to change his mind would be futile.
Drew wasn’t the type of person I could force to do something he didn’t want to.
That was something I liked about him, because I hated when guys let me walk all
over them, but it could get downright irritating at times. “It’s the second
biggest dance of the year. You have to go with me.”
He shrugged, and my arms dropped from his
neck, flopping down to my sides. “I don’t have
to do anything,” he said, his jaw tense. “I’m telling you that I’m going to
visit my grandparents that weekend. You’ll just have to have a fun time at the
dance without me.”
I sniffed, unable to believe this was
happening. I’d been imagining the night of the Halloween Dance for weeks—it was
supposed to be the first time I told Drew I loved him. Now he wasn’t even going
to be there. “I’m supposed to have a fun time without you.” I rolled my eyes.
“Whatever.”
“I think I should go,” he said, grabbing his
backpack from where he’d put it at the foot of my bed when he first came into
my room.
“Yeah.” I reached up to wipe away the single
tear that had started to fall down my cheek. Not that Drew noticed—or cared. “I
think you should.”
I sat on my bed as I watched him leave,
feeling rejected and confused. It sucked that he wouldn’t be able to come to
the Halloween Dance, but even worse was how after he saw how upset I was about
it, he left without trying to make me feel better. I wiped away another tear,
leaving behind a smudge of mascara on my hand. What was so wrong with me that
Drew didn’t even want to try making this better? It wouldn’t have taken much,
just a promise of something special to make up for the lost night of the dance,
but all he did was leave. I didn’t get it.
I lifted my cell phone off my nightstand and
went to our latest text messages. The last one was sent from him about twenty
minutes ago, saying he was at my house and about to come in. Not like that
lasted long. I stared at the phone, wishing there was something I could do to
fix this.
Way
to leave without caring how I feel about this, I wrote. I read it over and deleted it. But while the writing was gone,
the curser continued to blink, like it was waiting for me to type up something
brilliant that would make Drew apologize for treating me so terribly.
I
love you, I typed in its
place. I looked at that for a few more seconds, but deleted it as well. I
didn’t want the first time I told Drew I loved him to be via text message.
Still, I couldn’t leave things like this. Maybe he would apologize later, but I
doubted it. It was up to me to make things okay between us.
I’m
sorry, I wrote, my thumbs
flying furiously over the keyboard. You’re
right that you should visit your grandparents instead of going to the dance. I
was being stupid making such a big deal about it. Of course I’ll still have
fun. Cya in school tomorrow <3
I pressed send.
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