[Wattys 2022 Winner!] Vanessa Brooks, an anxious and cynical seventeen year-old, discovers she can travel to the summer of 1953 through the run-down community pool in her rural Michigan town and risks her future as she falls for a boy who lives in the past. ****** On the last day of junior year, Vanessa Brooks joins her friends for a traditional jump into the city pool to celebrate the beginning of summer and the last year they plan to spend in Palmer, Michigan; a dead-end riverside town with an eerily abandoned historic main street and decaying Victorian mansions. But when she resurfaces her classmates have been replaced by girls in retro swimsuits and bathing caps and guys in thigh-baring briefs with cigarettes tucked behind their ears. When Pete Harrison, an unfamiliar face who seems somewhat familiar with hers, offers a dizzy and confused Vanessa a towel and a ride home, she discovers her house and family missing. She has somehow slipped into 1953, the year her grandparents graduated high school. Using the pool and vivid imaginings of her grandfather's memories, Vanessa continues to escape to 1953- and to Pete, who, despite his unaffected kindness and optimism, has a mysterious bad reputation around town. But as she dives deeper into the summer her grandparents fell in love, she finds herself unable to return to the present without venturing even further into the past to correct a mistake that threatens her family and future. *Content Warning: this story contains scenes of near drowning and other perils on the sea, swearing, smoking and alcohol use* This story is complete at ~90,000 words. Wattys Winner 2022- Catchiest Hook and Wild Card Shortlisted Wattys 2021 Featured on @WattpadTimeTravel Featured on @WattpadHistoricalRomance Featured on @TeenFiction Editor's choice list, December 2022, May 2023 Cover by @eva3382

It's hot. It's new. It's sexy. Kristen Haynes has just moved to town of Macon in Georgia. She's one of those hot mess girls you would never associate yourself with. Well, that's hardly what's going on. It's all the rage of Macon. Sex scandals, drama, and love. What's more important in high school? He's just that average bad boy. There's nothing worth considering, yesterday's news. He doesn't drink or do drugs. He plays. What game might you ask? For now, we'll describe it as the game of sexes. He's not rude, not trashy. Why is he a 'bad boy'? Well, an ego can stroke a lot in a person. It's just your average, stereotypical guy. Nothing special, hardly noticed in halls. He's not a bad boy, a nerd, or jock. He's just average. What is it that makes him so interesting? What hand could he possibly play in this? He's a nobody. The events of Beacon Heights High School are just the latest drama. Everybody in the city of Macon and surrounding areas are begging to get a glimpse at the newest gossip.

Ella Hall moved to New York four years ago. Leaving behind a rocky love life, old friends, and one hell of a senior year. She was ready to start her new life and leave the past behind her, but that didn't really go has plan. You see she happen to run into a old fling her second week attending the dance college of her dreams. They automatically hit off like the last time and now four years later she is engaged and things are going great. She has a job working for the most well known dance hall in New York as a performer and to make things even more she gets to work with her now love of her life. Everything was wonderful her and nothing would come between what she has with Mr. fiancé. That is until her old love life comes knocking her down on her feet. What happens when old boyfriend and best friend; Shane Mills, shows back up and old feelings are dug back up? Will Ella find herself torn between two familiar flings once again? *Special thanks to esoterically for making the amazing cover*