SuitabookLiving between centuries
Alessandra moves from sixteenth-century Italy into twenty-first-century Beverly Hills and finds technology, transport and clothing unfamiliar.
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Rachel Harris - Author
This is a fish-out-of-water fantasy about a young woman crossing centuries, encountering unfamiliar technology and customs, and forming new possibilities through family connection and an emerging relationship.
Alessandra is bored of sixteenth-century life in Italy and longs to see her time-traveling cousin, Cat, in twenty-first century Beverly Hills, California. Everything is very different in the modern world including the boys. Alessandra D'Angeli is tired of her sixteenth-century life in Italy and homesick for her time-traveling cousin, Cat, who visited her for a magical week and dazzled her with tales of the future, Alessandra is lost. Until the stars hear her plea. One mystical spell later, Alessandra appears on Cat's Beverly Hills doorstep five hundred years in the future. Surrounded by confusing gadgets, scary transportation, and scandalous clothing, Less meets the infuriating surfer Austin Michaels. Austin challenges everything she believes in... and introduces her to a world filled with possibility.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a fish-out-of-water fantasy about a young woman crossing centuries, encountering unfamiliar technology and customs, and forming new possibilities through family connection and an emerging relationship.
Alessandra moves from sixteenth-century Italy into twenty-first-century Beverly Hills and finds technology, transport and clothing unfamiliar.
Alessandra meets Austin, who challenges what she believes and introduces her to a wider modern world.
Romantic content is part of the premise: Alessandra meets Austin and the story includes love.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the book’s treatment of its main themes is not yet firm enough; some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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