Heist by Laura
Pauling
Genre: YA Psychological Thriller
No release date yet (will
be in 2013)Genre: YA Psychological Thriller
Can one decision
change the past?
Jack Brodie has a sixth sense that someone has been watching him. Following him.
One night he travels back in time to one of the world’s largest art thefts, known as the Gardner Heist. Why that one moment in time? And what does it mean for Jack?
When he returns, his world is different. His best friend is rougher, meaner. His dad hasn’t been around in years. And then there’s Jetta. The girl who took over his heart the moment she stepped into his life. No one is safe.
Each time Jack goes back to the heist to fix his mistakes, he returns to face the fallout. Disaster strikes in the present until Jack must make a choice. His family and his own happiness. Or the girl he loves. Except, he learns that his sixth sense was right.
Someone has been watching him and wants him dead.
Jack Brodie has a sixth sense that someone has been watching him. Following him.
One night he travels back in time to one of the world’s largest art thefts, known as the Gardner Heist. Why that one moment in time? And what does it mean for Jack?
When he returns, his world is different. His best friend is rougher, meaner. His dad hasn’t been around in years. And then there’s Jetta. The girl who took over his heart the moment she stepped into his life. No one is safe.
Each time Jack goes back to the heist to fix his mistakes, he returns to face the fallout. Disaster strikes in the present until Jack must make a choice. His family and his own happiness. Or the girl he loves. Except, he learns that his sixth sense was right.
Someone has been watching him and wants him dead.
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AUTHOR BIO
Laura Pauling writes
young adult fiction. She lives the cover of suburban mom/author
perfectly, from the minivan to the home-baked snickerdoodles, while
hiding her secret missions and covert operations. But shh. Don't tell
anyone!
Her YA Circle of Spies Series includes A SPY LIKE ME and HEART OF AN ASSASSIN. Book three, TWIST OF FATE will be released in the fall of 2013.
HEIST, a young adult, psychological thriller, will be released the summer of 2013.
Her YA Circle of Spies Series includes A SPY LIKE ME and HEART OF AN ASSASSIN. Book three, TWIST OF FATE will be released in the fall of 2013.
HEIST, a young adult, psychological thriller, will be released the summer of 2013.
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The science behind time travel.
I’ve always loved stories or movies that involve time
travel. Not so much the science fiction aspect behind it, but how it affects
the characters and the storyline. But, that didn’t mean I could ignore the science
in my time travel novel.
At first, when Heist
was going to be a humorous upper middle grade novel, there was going to be a
science lab, a failed experiment, an explosion - and voila - time travel. That
didn’t quite fit with the story that was coming out on the page. After the
first draft, while doing more in-depth research, I stumbled upon a sickness
called, the Stendhal
Syndrome. This is a psychosomatic disorder causing dizziness, fainting,
confusion, and even hallucinations,
when exposed to a large amount of art, and more particularly, beautiful art.
I had my answer. In Heist,
Jack Brodie, the main character, has this experience. Copies of the stolen art
from the Gardner Museum Heist, bring him back to the night of the crime, March
17, 1990. Also, this fit better with my realistic, gritty time travel, then
trying to have an actual futuristic time travel machine.
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