Be Right Back

Four high school friends are able to do two things no one else on the planet can do . . . talk with dead people and time travel to the past. It's early summer and boredom is setting in. They have just returned from an adventure where they traveled through time back to 1966 to solve a mystery and save a popular high school girl's life. Kelly, Scott, Austin and Zoey gather in Scott's lab, listening to the old radio that Thomas Edison had invented and called "The Telephone to the Dead." As they slowly turn the dial they hear hundreds of sad, lonely voices of souls that have passed but apparently never moved on, pleading for help. When they first discovered the radio in Kelly's aunt's garage, they had been touched by the cries and pleas coming from its speakers, but they had no way to go back in time to help them. That is, until Scott reveals an invention of his own . . . a time travel app. A very young girl speaking in Spanish cries out to them, saying her whole family has been murdered on an island just off the east coast of Florida. Kelly understands a little Spanish, so she is able to communicate with the girl, but not able to get some very important details. It's difficult to investigate a crime that hasn't happened yet. The teens look the island up on Google Maps and see that it is completely deserted which contradicts the story they're getting from the Spirit Radio. But it's a beautiful island called Crystal Key with a stretch of beach that, unlike Ft. Myers Beach, is not crowded with tourists and kids. The teens decide to pop in, spend a nice day on the beach, check out the island to see if there is any truth to the girl's story, then pop right back. It sounds like a great plan. From the very beginning, things go wrong when Scott miscalculates their landing and they end up splashing into the Atlantic Ocean. After swimming for their lives, they collapse on the beach that is, indeed, beautiful. But it isn't deserted. They find the little girl, her family and a half dozen more people living in a sprawling Florida-style home owned by a menacing man named Manuel. He gives them no opportunity to escape and insists that they stay in the house. As they try to escape, Kelly tries to ignore her attraction to Austin, who clearly isn't interested in a romance. Besides, just days before she went on her very first date . . . with Scott. How could she have such strong feelings for two boys? And there is Zoey who is hot for Austin, but flirting shamelessly with Scott. Then people start dying and all the teens can think about is saving the families and themselves. Are they destined to be a madman's latest victims? Their time travel adventure to a tropical paradise may turn out to be their last. Book #1, Oh My God (OMG), a romance / time travel starts the series as the teens travel back to 1966 where they discover that being a cheerleader can kill you. Winner of the Best Indie Book of 2013 for Young Adults and a Finalist in the 2013 Beverly Hills Book Awards. Book #2, Be Right Back (BRB), a romance / time travel when the teens go back to 1980 where a day on a quiet deserted beach can kill you. Winner of the Young Adult Readers' Favorite Book Award for 2013. Book #3, Believe It Or Not (BION), a romance / time travel goes back to 1927 where the teenagers join a travelling circus and Zoey finds out there's no good time for love. Believe It Or Not won the Best Indie Young Adult Book Award for 2014. Book #4, Rest in Peace (RIP), a romance / time travel takes the teens back to the infamous Stanley Hotel in 1911. You don't have to believe in ghosts...until you meet one.