Title: A darkly beating heart
Description: No one knows what to do with Reiko. She is full of hatred. All she can think about is how to best hurt herself and the people closest to her. After a failed suicide attempt, Reiko&#x;s parents send her from their Seattle home to spend the summer with family in Japan to learn to control her emotions. But while visiting Kuramagi, a historic village preserved to reflect the nineteenth-century Edo period, Reiko finds herself slipping back in time into the life of Miyu, a young woman even more bent on revenge than Reiko herself. Reiko loves being Miyu, until she discovers the secret of Kuramagi village, and must face down Miyu&#x;s demons as well as her own.
Subjects: History, Juvenile fiction, Suicidal behavior, Revenge, Time travel, Fiction, Children's fiction, Time travel, fiction, Japan, fiction
Places: Japan
Time periods: Tokugawa period, 1600-1868