Hold Me Down

Hold Me Down

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Jo didn't know how to swim. She never needed it growing up in Oregon. There wasn't a beach and she wasn't much for water anyways. But her mom had to move them to Florida 3 years ago, when Jo was 15. Now it seemed she couldn't escape water. How do you survive the ocean if you don't know how to swim? You learn. And that's just what she'll do. But Jo just might get more than she bargained for this summer. I would like to say that this story is fictional and all peoples named in this book are fictional or their characteristics are a depiction of my own thoughts. Also, this book may contain sexual content, foul language, and violence. For warning I will put an astrik (*) near the chapter title. Examples: Drug Usage: **** Sexual content: *** Violence: ** Foul language: * Thank you for your time and I hope you enjoy the read. I will update every other Saturday.
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[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 But when she resurfaces her classmates have been replaced by girls in retro swimsuits and bathing caps and guys in thigh-baring briefs with cigarettes tucked behind their ears.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

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