Change the Past

A grief-stricken teen uprooted to a new state discovers time travel and must risk her life — and her first chance at love — to save a stranger from the past. Change the Past is Book #1 in the Time Shifters YA series by Bob Kat (the pen name of husband-and-wife writing duo Kathy Clark and Bob Wernly). Sixteen-year-old Kelly Welch's summer was supposed to be perfect — long, lazy days with her friends and her horse in Texas. But her life changes in an instant, and her unexpected move to Fort Myers Beach, Florida leaves her lonely and frightened. Living with a workaholic aunt she barely knows, and facing a new school, she's anxious and unhappy. That changes when she meets Scott — smart and nerdy, and a kindred spirit — and they quickly become friends. His best friend, the handsome and athletic Austin, joins them on a surprise adventure back to the past, adding an unexpected romantic complication. At the heart of the adventure is a strange machine Scott discovers — Thomas Edison's legendary Telephone to the Dead. After some tinkering, they pick up the voice of a young girl named Wendy calling for help from beyond, and Scott finds a way for the three of them to travel through time to save her. The summer that began so badly becomes the most exciting and dangerous one of Kelly's life, as she faces the dilemma of risking everything to save someone she doesn't even know — especially now that she's felt the first promise of love. The book blends mystery, time travel, science, and teen romance into a fast-paced YA adventure, and went on to win the Best Indie Book Young Adult award for 2013. BOOK #3 RUNAWAY LOVER Zoey Chandler is popular, beautiful, and rich. Her most important achievement is that she is on the cheer squad. That is, until she accidentally is swept along on a crazy adventure with Austin, Kelly, and Scott. If they can save him, how can Zoey make the difficult decision of whether to give up the life she knows and loves for a boy in a different time who has stolen her heart? BOOK #4 FOREVER LOVE Kelly and Austin are left alone while everyone else is on vacation trips with their families. They celebrate the Fourth of July together and grow closer than ever. As they face their first defeat, they are caught by surprise when the same danger that takes Emma also threatens the teens when one of their own is captured in a killer's web. Will they be able to save Emma? Or will they join her as permanent guests in the ghostly halls of The Stanley Hotel? You don't have to believe in ghosts…until you meet one. BOOK #5 NOT MY LIFE Right place wrong time…that's never happened before and what they don't know could kill them. On their way home from a trip to the Stanley Hotel in 1911, an accidental detour drops Kelly, Austin, Scott, and Zoey in 1977. They discover that their old friend, Dan Denucci has been arrested for murder. They knew him as a homeless man living under the fishing pier and making jewelry. How had this gentle old man become a killer?