Tangled in Time

For fans of the Royal Diaries series and Gail Carson Levine, Newbery Honor-winning author Kathryn Lasky delivers the first enchanting adventure in a compelling new middle grade series about a newly orphaned girl who finds herself time-travelling between the present day and the court of the two most memorable English princesses in history. Life used to be great for Rose: full of friends, a loving mom, and a growing fashion blog. But when her mother dies in a car crash, Rose is sent away to live with a strange grandmother she hardly knows and forced to attend a new school where mean girls ridicule her at every turn. The only place Rose finds refuge is in her grandmother's greenhouse. But one night she sees a strange light glowing from within it. She goes to investigate...and finds herself transported back five hundred years to Hatfield Palace, where she becomes servant and confidant of the banished princess Elizabeth, daughter of King Henry VIII. Rose soon discovers something else amazing-a locket with two mysterious images inside it, both clues to her own past. Could the greenhouse portal offer answers to the mysteries of her family...and their secrets?

For fans of the Royal Diaries series and of Gail Carson Levine, here is the second adventure in a middle grade time travel series from Newbery Honor-winning Kathryn Lasky! In book 2, newly orphaned Rose finds herself time-traveling between present day and the court of the two most memorable English princesses in history. When Princess Mary ascends the throne in sixteenth-century England, Rose is forced to leave Princess Elizabeth and serve Mary. Mary's coronation is coming, and Rose will be put to work making elaborate gowns. But the religiously devout queen's next plan is to begin her attack on Protestants-burning them at the stake! Rose's dad, master spy and goldsmith for the court, urges Rose to escape to her home century, present day Indiana, where Rose befriends a young immigrant named Marisol. Rose must protect Marisol from both middle school mean girls and the threat of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Relishing her newfound family, Rose is determined to rescue her father and best friend Franny from the dangers of Queen Mary's reign. Is she willing to risk everything to save the people closest to her?

What if her future happiness lies in a time tangled past? The last of those who loved her are gone. With nothing left for Kate Moreton in New Zealand, it's time to start over. She's pinned her hopes of finding friends, family, and maybe even love, on a new life in London. What Kate doesn't know is this journey will lead her to two men, two loves-and two lives. James Beckett is a hot-shot film producer on the road to the top. The brash confidence that's taken him there is not a star quality Kate would ever seek in her ideal man. Not to mention the complication that he's her new best friend's brother. But is there a hidden talent for love underneath his cool exterior that might make her reconsider? Alex Macleod is a Scottish film star heartthrob who struggles with the glare of celebrity. Burnt before, he's erased love from the script of his life. When his path crosses that of a sweet Kiwi girl who is unaware of his fame, perhaps there are other possibilities in their friendship.But time is a trickster, offering Kate the love of two men while threatening to take them both away. She'll need to fight to get the second chance at happiness she deserves. Tangled Threads is time travel romance with a twist. If you were obsessed by Outlander's time-crossed love-triangle or intrigued by the premise of parallel lives in Maybe In Another Life, then you'll love this story, the first in the Tangled in Time series. It can also be read as a satisfying standalone. This is a new adult, dual point of view romance novel, in an international setting, with elements of found family, enemies to friends to lovers, friends to lovers and the enduring power of female friendships.