Amelie Johnson

Time travel, anyone? How about a grumpy-sunshine dynamic? Or a storyline that feels like a classic adventure movie?

Well, you can find all the above in KARABOS by @lyndseylewellen, which has released TODAY from @enclavepublishing!

What a ride this time travel novel is. Fantastical coastline academy, homeschooled entomologist, prickly yet endearing cartographer, worldbuilding reminiscent of 1920s treasure-hunting films and Old Testament Egypt, strong dynamics of family and friendship, scarab-hunting scholarship tournament, conflicts of worldviews and apologetics, heart-tugging threads of romance, a timeline undergirded with a sense of providence…boasting all those elements and more, Karabos pulses with impossible-to-predict twists and thematic weight.

An engaging and entirely satisfying first installment, KARABOS has me rooting so hard for Winslet and Rafe and praising the One Source who crafted our timeline with abundant intention.

Congratulations, Lyndsey! Happiest release day for your fourth novel!

(For a brief synopsis of the book, friends, read on!)

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When sixteen-year-old homeschooled entomologist Winslet Nubek enters the elite, insect-hunting Tournament of Scarabs to save her family from ruin, she expects danger and magic bugs. Not time travel. Paired with a resentful cartographer, Rafe, who doubts her every move, Winslet accidentally triggers a forbidden time scarab and launches them both into volatile jumps through an ancient world.

As they struggle to hide their condition and stay in the competition, their time slips reveal buried truths about the scarabs—and the lies their glittering society is built on. With sinister forces closing in, Winslet and Rafe must capture legendary insects and expose the truth before the past bleeds into the present and destroys them both.

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