Marking Time by April White

Marking Time by April White

Seventeen-year-old tagger Saira Elian can handle anything.a mother who mysteriously disappears, a stranger who stalks her around London, and even the noble English Grandmother who kicked Saira and her mother out of the family. But when an old graffiti tag in a tube station transports Saira to the 19th Century and she comes face-to-face with Jack the Ripper, she realizes she needs help after all. Saira meets Archer, a charming student who helps her blend in as much as a tall, modern American teen can in Victorian England. He reveals the existence of the Immortals: Time, Nature, Fate, War and Death, and explains to Saira that it is possible to move between centuries - if you are a Descendant of Time. Saira finds unexpected friendships at a boarding school for Immortal Descendants and a complicated love with a young man from the past. But time is running out for her mother, and Saira must embrace her new identity as she hides from Archer a devastating secret about his future that may cost him his life.

APRIL WHITE has worked as a screenwriter, a film producer, a private investigator, a bouncer, and a teacher. She's hiked in the Himalayas, lived on a gold mine in the Yukon, and read the entire Harry Potter novel three times: once to herself and twice to her two sons. She and her husband live in Southern California with their two sons, a dog, many hens, and a lifetime's worth of books. April wrote her first novel, Marking Time, because she wanted to read it, and now she needs to complete the five-book series to find out what happens next. www.immortaldescendants.com has further information as well as her blog.