A Split Second

That clock can’t be right. When Elise wakes up the morning after her birthday celebration, she’s surprised to find herself in her bedroom. Last she can remember, she had fallen asleep next to her best friends at her slumber party in her basement, and it was October. But now she’s alone, and her phone says it’s April 8. Elise doesn’t understand. How could she have woken up six months later?

No one else is acting like anything strange has happened, yet Elise can't remember the last half year. To make matters worse, her friends refuse to talk to her and Elise doesn't know why. She also has no idea how she got signed up for photography club or why her former best friend, Cora, is talking to her again. Is it a memory problem? Could it be magic? Every day that passes takes Elise further from the world she knew. Thankfully, Elise has Cora to lean on in this new reality, and the two come together to investigate why Elise woke up in the future—and, more important, how to get her back to her past and away from this nightmare.

To find the truth, Elise will have to piece together a past she can't remember. But what happens when the answers are more magical—and dangerous—than she ever imagined?

• A Middle Grade Time Slip: One night it's October, the next it's April. Elise has lost six months of her life, and she'll do anything to get them back.
• Friendship Drama: Her best friends won't even look at her, and a girl she hasn't spoken to in years is suddenly her closest ally. Elise must figure out who she can trust.
• A Magical Locket: The only clue from the night she lost time is a mysterious silver locket with a spinning clock inside. Could it be the key to unlocking the truth?
• Solving a Personal Mystery: Is it amnesia or something more? Elise's investigation leads her to a strange shop downtown and the possibility that a magic spell is the cause of her nightmare.