When I was a teen, my favorite books were the Caroline B. Cooney Both Sides of Time series. They were romantic and exciting, historical and fun. I never quite found a series like that again. I think Rachel Carter's So Close to You just might be the start of a new era of romantic time travel books and I couldn't be more excited!

The book takes place under the shadow of the Montauk Project, a secret government operation on the tip of Long Island that conspiracy theorists insist existed in real life, and here concerns a time travel experiment that steals kids from their homes and sends them on twisted, painful, and often deadly trips through history.

Lydia and Wes are at the heart of the story: she's from the present, he's from the past, and as it turns out, both of them share a history. Lydia has accidentally been transported to World War II-era Montauk, a world of jitterbugs, box socials, and handsome officers on leave. She's searching for her long lost grandfather, who may be caught up in the mysterious Project, and Wes is a solider who aways seems to know what Lydia is planning, where she is going, and if she's in trouble—it's a real romance that's revealed slowly and secretly.

So Close to You takes place in a world ruled by the Project, it's very scary and very real, and by the end Lydia and Wes are bound together against this new world. I can't wait to see where the rest of the series takes them.