A Shift in Time

In one moment, Blake Soto was on a quiet run around her uneventful neighborhood. Then flashes of lightning appeared around her. In the very next moment, she was 300 years into the future. Thrust into a lab of brilliant physicists hiding things - and secrets - from her, Blake longed more than anything to go back to her year and finish her troublesome personal essay for college.

Dr. Thomas Fountain never thought she would break the first law in time traveling: to never bring back someone from the past. But time travelers who were sent to April 3, 2317 and later dates never came back. The world of 2316 needed Elliott Zevin, the creator of the time machine, to fix the timeline. She had her senior assistant (Cory Pak) program the time machine to retrieve the father of the time machine. Instead, they got Blake Soto, a girl whose future was tied too closely to the time machine's history.

As Blake Soto and Fountain's junior assistant (Davud Nikbin) clashed in a battle of wills, Dr. Fountain couldn't but helped to watch the days slip closer to April 3, 2317, the day where the timeline collapsed. Could Blake with the help of Fountain and her team save the world in time?

YA Science Fiction, A SHIFT IN TIME tells a story of a quiet girl finding her inner strength to save the world. And maybe along the way, she will set the future and her own future straight. The targeted word count is 75K to 80K.