To start kc dyer's time travel trilogy, Seeds of Time introduced Darrell Connor, a young girl struggling to find her way after the loss of her father and her leg in a terrible accident. Unwilling and unable to adjust to a new school, she slipped through a 'fabric of time' and emerged in 14th century Scotland during the Black Plague. In a new, follow-up volume, Secret of Light (Boardwalk/Dundurn $12.99), Darrell and her dog Delaney discover another route into the past when they investigate an abandoned lighthouse. This time she slips backward in time to Renaissance Italy where she meets an aspiring young artist named Leonardo da Vinci. "My main character is an artist,"; says dyer, "and she idolized Leonardo. When he stepped into the pages of this book, he just took over. I had no intention of giving him nearly as much space as he demanded."; Uncapitalized kc dyer is the pen name for Karen Dyer who publishes a local newspaper in Lions Bay. Secret 1-55002-477-9

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