Author Carla Trueheart

Unlock Time’s Secrets: A Teenage Environmentalist Dives into Time Travel, Love, and a Dangerous Destiny.

When fifteen-year-old Tabitha Bray is invited to attend the Nostroms School for Time Travelers, the mysterious dying words whispered to her years ago—circa, sienna, bah—begin to make sense. At Nostroms, Tabitha juggles time travel classes, missing her family, and a complicated romance, only to discover the cryptic words point to a dangerous destiny. She must confront a time-traveling criminal on the doomed Titanic and summon extraordinary magic to save a rare painting—and herself.

YA Paranormal/Sci-fi

Sixteen-year-old Shaw Huntley, possessing a telekinetic power linked to a jeweled dagger, is on the run from two men who murdered his father to obtain the dagger. In Rockpoint, New York, Shaw meets gamer Melody Tufts, who discovers a mysterious symbol on the dagger’s hilt. They uncover that Shaw’s abilities stem from an ancient ritual involving four magical items representing fire, water, air, and earth. Shaw and Melody embark on a dangerous quest to reverse the ritual, but Shaw is torn between relinquishing his powers and confronting his enemies.

YA Paranormal

Finalist in the 2016 International Book Awards

In the summer of 1988, childhood friends Kyle, Brandon, and Vanessa make a secret pact, burying their most valued possessions in a Tupperware bowl at Blueberry Pond. Twenty years later, facing personal crises—Kyle's alcoholism, Brandon's failing business, and Vanessa's messy divorce—they realize they need those items to get through their struggles. In their quest to recover the buried treasures, however, they rediscover the enduring power of their friendship.

Adult, general fiction

In the year 2273, the former United States is divided into two sectors: the Unifieds and the Solitaries. Seventeen-year-old Eldree Concord has studied all her life to become a Go-Between, a citizen who works as a peacekeeper between the Unifieds and the Solitaries. As a Unified, Eldree lives with uniformity among citizens, cutting-edge technology, and a structured government. The Solitaries, however, live scattered, old-world lifestyles with limited rules and regulations. With vastly different ways of living, the two groups are not allowed to interact for fear of disputes, treason, or even war.

On Eldree’s first assignment in the Saxet Extension, an area known for land disputes, she negotiates with Lan Hollinger, a seventeen-year-old Go-Between for the Solitaries. The current dispute is over a shared river, and Eldree is hopeful that the disagreement will end quickly through compromise. But when the battle teeters closer to war, Eldree and Lan escape the falling bombs and end up together on a journey back home. As the two attempt to squelch the rising battles and keep the peace, Eldree finds herself falling in love with Lan and his backwoods, peaceful way of living. And with war booming around her, Eldree must make the difficult decision to fight away her feelings for Lan, or face the consequences of falling in love with the enemy.

YA Futuristic Sci-Fi/Romance

In the springtime, park-goers hear the familiar squeaks of his balloon cart as he moves along the paths. He hands out free balloons, choosing the perfect colors and imparting advice and wisdom. There’s a touch of magic there—an answered question with each balloon, a changed expression with each color—but only Cammie York sees the full picture. She journals about him obsessively, afraid to ask him for a balloon, until one day she does. Then, The Balloon Man moves from her fairytale stories of him to real-life person . . . a person with faults and mysteries.

When The Balloon Man tucks the ribbon of a pink balloon into Cammie’s hand, she feels the spark of a new adventure. Cammie insists his balloons are magic, especially when she learns The Balloon Man does not know his father but has one clue to his identity—a green spiral magic symbol. The clues to The Balloon Man’s identity lead onward, to an enchanted inn with magic wallpaper, then to a secret underworld of true magicians. During the journey, Cammie and The Balloon Man begin to fall in love, sharing pink balloons of romance, red balloons of love. But when The Balloon Man finally accepts his destiny as true magic man, the two learn that the magic that has brought them together is also what may tear them apart.

New Adult Romance

Seventeen-year-old Wyler Bells has never quite accepted his mother’s death. It doesn’t help that his father has tucked himself away in an office, writing a novel, and pretending that Wyler does not exist. Wyler has always been seen as a tragic figure at school, and while his friends have formed a family unit for him with love and support, Wyler dreams only of escaping. Maybe to the sunny west coast. Maybe to watch the clouds zoom by in the midwest. Maybe to sleep under the orange southern skies. Anyplace is better than Crystal Field, with a house only filled with the tap-tap of keys and pictures of his mother before the fire took her away.

But when a mysterious carnival comes to town, Wyler considers that he may just get his wish of escape. Presented with an envelope of free carnival tickets, Wyler and his friends ride a Ferris Wheel that actually levitates the riders, spin on a merry-go-round that offers glimpses of the future, and whirl around on Scrambled, a ride that changes their emotions. The rides are intense, and while most of Wyler’s friends are leery of the carnival, Wyler finds himself growing attached to it, particularly to Ezzie, the alluring and sweet conductor of the fun house. As the carnival sucks Wyler in, he learns of the Lost Souls, teenagers who roam the carnival grounds but are losing their energy and essence to keep up the magic of the carnival. Wyler wants nothing more than to leave with the carnival and Ezzie when they travel away from Crystal Field, but he must face some important things—or be in danger of becoming a Lost Soul himself.

YA Paranormal