Winning first place in the Paranormal Category of the 2017 Pages from the Heart Contest, “The Witch of the Hills
With Kirkus Reviews describing it as “an often jaunty and thoroughly entertaining story of young love,” I asked myself, will the book live up to its hype. Fortunately, it did! A laugh out loud funny YA fantasy book, “The Witch of the Hills” has an engaging plot, which quite frankly, I am glad to say that I have never encountered anything similar before.
A time travel book wherein the past and the present crosses path, our young protagonists, Brian Danahey and Rebecca are both 16 years old. They are separated by time and space! Long distance relationship is hard even for adults. So, Brian and Rebecca have distance against them – he lives in Sidney, Nebraska, she lives in Salem, Massachusetts.
Then we have to consider that Brian is from 21st century while Rebecca is from the 17th century. Taking that into account, even the current laws of physics are taking their young love to task!
“The Witch of the Hills
If you’re an adult and like fast-paced stories, you might find this book a challenge to finish. But if you want to laugh and be entertained with an original plot, then this book is for you.
“The Witch of the Hills
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The Witch of the Hills
The Laws of Physics take young love to task
A time travel book wherein the past and the present crosses path, our young protagonists, Brian Danahey and Rebecca are both 16 years old. They are separated by time and space! Rebecca lives in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts while Brian lives in the 21st century Sidney, Nebraska. Taking that into account, even the current laws of physics are taking their young love to task!
Ancient prophecy compels a young Salem witch to travel forward through the time-bending dimension we all visit when we sleep. Rebecca Church must recruit a modern-day boy to save this interactive fantasy world from imminent disaster, but her task won’t be easy. She may use no more than poetry, illusions, and dreams to convince the chosen one of his destiny, and she can visit him only nine brief times.
When Brian Danahey meets Rebecca at the side of a desolate road, he recognizes her from a recurring nightmare about a girl in great danger. Brian falls in love with her, she disappears, and he comes to believe she’s the Witch of the Hills, a colonial maiden exiled to haunt the western prairies for centuries. The quest to free Rebecca takes him through mirrors and time from the sand hills of contemporary Nebraska to the seventeenth-century witch haven she once called home.
But Rebecca doesn’t need saving, and certainly not three-hundred years ago. The magical dimension that nourishes our souls is on the brink of apocalypse. Today.
