Deborah Heal
ASIN: B00BMUQAR4
Publisher: ; 2nd edition (January 16, 2014)
Pages: 267
An old house + A new computer program = The travel opportunity of a lifetime…to another century. Abby Thomas is spending the summer in a run-down old house with a bratty pre-teen named Merrideth she is supposed to tutor. It’s not her idea of a dream job, but it does come with perks. There’s John Roberts, a devastatingly attractive neighbor who is almost too wonderful to be real. And then there’s the virtual trip to the 19th century she gets to take via a strange computer program called Beautiful Houses—also too amazing to be real! No one knows how it works, but with the program, Abby can rewind and fast-forward the lives of all the people who ever lived in the house, including that of young Charlotte Miles. In 1858, Charlotte’s house is a train stop on the Alton & Chicago Line. And she is stuck there serving meals to the passengers, wondering if she’ll ever get to have any fun. But then ...