Welcome to the Transcend Time Book Blitz! XPresso Book Tours are hosting this great tour for Michelle Madow's Transcend Time book series. A series about reincarnation, love, and revenge. It's a fantastic, well written series, and seriously, how can you resist these covers? They're gorgeous!
Remembrance
Michelle Madow
Series: Transcend Time Saga #1
Release date: July 27th 2011
Pages 314
ISBN: 9780615512445
Genre: YA Time Travel
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.
Vengeance
Michelle Madow
Series: Transcend Time Saga #2
Release Date: December 8th 2011
Pages: 66
ISBN: 9780615559711
Genre: YA Time Travel
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.
Timeless
Michelle Madow
Series: Transcend Time Saga #3
Release date: November 14th 2012
Pages: 230
ISBN: 9780615692931
Genre: YA Time Travel
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.
Transcendence
Michelle Madow
Series: Transcend Time Saga Bonus Material
Release Date: December 25th 2012
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781481165563
Genre: YA Time Travel
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This series also contains a new BONUS packet called Transcendence.
This bonus material can be downloaded FOR FREE!
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
And now, straight from Michelle's bonus content in Transcendence, the deleted scene from Timeless. *Please be warned, this deleted scene may contain spoilers as it is from book 3 of the series.
DELETED
CHAPTER FROM TIMELESS
Lizzie
telling Keelie about being reincarnated
This
chapter was in the advanced copy of Timeless
I gave to reviewers, but I removed it before publishing the final version. It
slowed the pacing of the book, and I decided not to have Lizzie tell Keelie
about being reincarnated. So this scene never happened in the story, but if
Lizzie were to tell Keelie
everything, here is how it would go down! This chapter would have occurred
after Lizzie’s mom agreed to go to England.
With all of this unbelievable stuff going on
in my life, it was hard to remember that I was supposed to be a typical sixteen
year old high school junior. Ever since the beginning of the school year when I
saw Drew for the first time, my entire life had changed. But for everyone else
who hadn’t recently discovered that they were reincarnated from Regency Era,
England, and that their best friend accidentally cast a curse to kill them so
they now had to travel back to the past to fix things, life was still normal.
I reminded myself of that when Keelie texted
me later that night saying she thought Jeremy was interested in her, and how
she wanted to make sure that was okay with me since we broke up recently.
Seeing that text made me realize something:
Keelie was a kind, considerate person, and I truly wanted to be her friend.
Throughout the years I grew comfortable with the friendship I had with Chelsea,
but it had faults, especially after everything that had happened within the
past few months. I had been afraid to tell Chelsea about my feelings for Drew,
since she had announced her interest in him first. Luckily, Drew and I had the
reincarnation-bond between us, which eventually brought us together again, but
if circumstances had been normal, what would have happened? Would Chelsea have
gotten the guy, and I would have been shafted because I was afraid to say
something to my best friend since I didn’t want her to be angry with me? And if
I did tell her, I knew Chelsea well enough to suspect that she would have
claimed that she noticed him first, so I should let her be happy and focus on
mending my broken relationship with Jeremy.
But maybe I wasn’t being fair to Chelsea. She
might have done that before discovering the past lives that bound us together,
but perhaps things had changed with her now. I wanted to believe that people
could change, and that my friendship with Chelsea could return to normal.
At the same time, I had to branch out and get
closer to other people—people like Keelie, who wanted to be friends with me.
She cared enough about being friends to make sure it was okay with me that
Jeremy was interested in her, even though I had no claim on him anymore. She
also left Shannon’s party early to help me, even though we didn’t know each
other well. On the car ride back to my house, I’d skimmed over what had
happened between myself, Drew, Chelsea, and Jeremy, because I wanted to keep
the reincarnation stuff secret from Keelie.
Now that I saw the possibility of a real
friendship with her, was it fair to keep so much secret? Could a true
friendship be formed when one person wasn’t being honest with the other?
It wasn’t difficult to figure out the answer
to that question.
It’s
fine with me, I replied to
Keelie’s text. What are you up to
tomorrow?
I
should be working on a paper for class, but I’m up for distractions! she said.
Which is why five minutes later, we had plans
to get ice cream the next day.
I couldn’t believe I was planning on telling
Keelie everything. But if I wanted to be friends with her—true friends—I had to
start the friendship off right.
* * *
The next morning, I wasn’t as confident about
my decision as I had been last night. There was a high probability that Keelie
would think I’d gone nuts, which was the same reason I hadn’t told my mom the
full story. But unlike my mom, Keelie wasn’t a psychiatrist, so hopefully she
wouldn’t psychoanalyze everything I said.
Even though she wouldn’t try diagnosing me
with a mental disorder, there was the possibility she would think the story was
crazy.
Hopefully Keelie had an open mind.
We ordered our ice cream and sat down at a
booth in the corner—as far away from other people that I could find. I didn’t
want others eavesdropping in on this conversation.
“Are you sure you’re okay with Jeremy asking
me out?” Keelie asked. “If you’re not, I understand. You can tell me.”
“I’m sure,” I said, meaning it. “Even though
we broke up recently, it had been coming for a while. And remember, I’m the one
who broke up with him, so if he said he’s ready to move on, he means it.”
She spooned some ice cream into her mouth.
“What did happen between you two?”
she asked. “If there’s a reason why I should stay away, you would tell me,
right?”
“He’s basically a good person, but we grew
apart,” I said. “We had different interests. I was focusing on school since
junior year is important for college applications, and doing more with my art.
He didn’t understand why I wasn’t as interested in sports as he was.”
“You did look bored at the soccer game,”
Keelie said with a laugh.
“Because I was!” I said.
“It’s that bad for you to watch?”
“Yep.” I nodded. “I don’t see the point of
watching people kick a ball back and forth on a field. I find it boring. No
offense to people who like it,” I added, since Keelie liked watching soccer.
“It’s just not my thing.”
“I can sort of get that,” Keelie said. “I’ve
never thought about why I like
watching sports; it’s just something I enjoy. I guess it’s because I like the
unknown … having no idea who’s going to win, and hoping that sitting there
cheering will encourage our team and help bring them to victory. It’s also the
competition that I like—how passion can trump logic. You never know how a game
is going to end. It’s fun.”
“I never thought of it that way,” I said. I
wasn’t going to turn into a sports fanatic now, but it was interesting to hear
someone’s point of view that was different from mine. Chelsea only liked going
to the games to socialize, and Jeremy wasn’t well-spoken enough to voice his
opinion like Keelie just did. “It sounds like something Jeremy would think.”
“So you think the two of us will be good
together?”
“I could definitely see it working,” I said.
“You’re a much better fit for him than I ever was.”
“I’m glad you said that,” she said with
relief. “I didn’t want to make things awkward for you if I started hanging out
with him more.”
“It’s totally not awkward,” I assured her. “I
would be happy for both of you—really.”
“Anyway, how are things with Drew?” Keelie
asked. “When I drove you home from Shannon’s party, it sounded like everything
was a disaster and you wanted nothing more to do with him. I’m taking from
seeing the two of you around school that you’re together now?”
“We are,” I said, although I didn’t know how
to continue from there. How was I supposed to tell her that Drew and I loved
each other in a past life, but we never had the opportunity to be together, and
now we were reincarnated so we could have a real chance in this life?
I felt ready last night, but now I had no
idea where to begin.
“Is everything okay?” Keelie asked. “You just
got really quiet.”
“Everything’s fine,” I said. “It’s just that
the night of Shannon’s party, when I told you everything that happened with me,
Drew, Chelsea, and Jeremy, I didn’t tell you the whole truth.”
“Oh?” Keelie raised an eyebrow.
“This is going to sound strange,” I warned
her. “But do you believe in reincarnation?”
“That’s random,” she said. I had a feeling
she was stalling because the question was so unexpected that she had no idea
how to reply. “It’s one of those things that would be cool if it were real, but
I never thought of it as an actual possibility.”
“So you don’t believe in it?” I asked.
“I’m not sure,” she said. “Why? Do you?”
“Well, I didn’t believe in it … until I met
Drew.”
She looked at me in disbelief. “And since you
met Drew, you believe in reincarnation?”
I nodded, my cheeks turning red. This was
more humiliating than I had anticipated.
She leaned forward, and I hoped she was at
least intrigued. “Do you think you and Drew … knew each other in a past life?”
“I don’t think so,” I said. “I know so.”
And the story spilled from there.
* * *
“You believe me?” I asked after I finished
telling the story. The only part I kept to myself was how Genevieve was
Shannon’s aunt. Chelsea had promised Shannon no one would find out, and I
didn’t want to break that confidence.
“I think so,” she said. “There’s no reason
for you to make this up, and I don’t think you would have told me if you didn’t
believe it. Also, it would have been too coincidental for you, Drew, and
Chelsea to remember the same things without talking with each other about it
first. So it’s the only explanation that makes sense. It’s a lot to take in,
though.”
“It was like that for me at first, too,” I
said. “Sometimes there are still days when I wake up and wonder if this has
actually happened, or if it’s been one long dream.”
“I suppose I can believe the past life
stuff,” she said. “That you and Drew are soul mates and were reincarnated to be
together. It’s romantic. But the rest of it, with the spells and the time
travel—that’s where it gets hard for me to believe.”
“Understandable,” I said. It seemed like she
thought I was loony for believing that time travel might be possible, but she
was being nice in not making me feel bad about it. “I look at it like this. If
it’s possible, then I’ll go to England, visit a time that I never thought I
could, and make it so Chelsea’s spell has no effect on this life. If the spell
didn’t do anything and we can’t go back in time, then at least I’ll have gone
to England with Drew, and have had an incredible Christmas.”
“You’ll have to tell me all about it when you
get back,” Keelie said.
“I will,” I promised.
Hopefully when I returned, I would have only
good things to share.
Amazing right? This series is just great. I loved reading all three books and I sincerely look forward to reading more from this author. Now go get to purchasing these books & downloading the FREE bonus pack!
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