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In this chilling ghost story, an act from the distant past is reawakened and afflicts the life of a modern teenage girl.
When Lydia travels to Amsterdam with her parents, bizarre things start to happen. Curtains flutter and unexplained shadows move unnerving her. With Dad interviewing for a job, Lydia is content to dismiss the oddities blaming them on jet lag and her migraine disease. But upon returning home to New York, the experiences intensify.
This is the haunting tale of two girls separated by four hundred years. Lydia is confused and in danger because the ghost of a little Dutch girl, Annika, wants revenge. When Lydia’s life is threatened, she is forced to solve a centuries’ old mystery to uncover the truth about Annika, her story, and how their past and present connect them. Can Lydia learn the truth in time to save herself and help Annika?
I’ve been experimenting with several free, AI image generators over the last month or so. I know there are some powerful applications out there if you pay for them and are good at technology. Alas, not me. But I did have some success with Microsoft’s Designer’s Image Creator. Take a look at the images in the video below. Typing in ever more specific details over a period of time did result in usable images. ArtGuru also produced good images for fantasy but was awful for historical themes. Others to try: Runway, Craiyon, Adobe Firefly, Dream Studio, Night Cafe, DeepAI. All in the future, when I get the time. What works for you?
When fourteen-year-old Lydia travels to Amsterdam with her parents, the last thing she expects is the weird incidents that plague her stay. Curtains flutter mysteriously, and unexplained shadows move through the kitchen unnerving her. But Lydia is more concerned with the potential move to upstate New York. She dismisses the odd occurrences blaming them on jet lag and the various symptoms of her migraine disease.
When Lydia’s father lands a new job and the family moves to an area first settled by the Dutch, the bizarre happenings continue. Suffering from migraines has never been easy, but now Lydia has to contend with what she may have inadvertently brought home with her.
“Timeless Tulips Dark Diamonds is a ghost story for a family read. The story narrates the relationship between two young girls who meet in a place where eternity is now; Annika is living in the seventeenth century and Lydia in the twenty-first. They are connected by place as Lydia unknowingly traces Annika’s passage from Europe to America, discovering at the end of her journey the house in which Annika was murdered.
The book is crammed with real information that’s guaranteed to stimulate the imagination. The writer provides a wealth of background in art, American history and the inside story of the great Tulip crash of 1637. It’s exactly the kind of book I used to read to my children back when they were still children and I recommend it to all parents or caregivers for reading to the children in their care.”
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Tulipmania! When the world went wild for tulips. The history behind Timeless Tulips, Dark Diamonds- A Ghost Story.
When fourteen-year-old Lydia travels to Amsterdam with her parents, the last thing she expects is the weird incidents that plague her stay. Curtains flutter mysteriously, and unexplained shadows move through the kitchen unnerving her. But Lydia is more concerned with the potential move to upstate New York. She dismisses the odd occurrences blaming them on jet lag and the various symptoms of her migraine disease.
When Lydia’s father lands a new job and the family moves to an area first settled by the Dutch, the bizarre happenings continue. Suffering from migraines has never been easy, but now Lydia has to contend with what she may have inadvertently brought home with her.
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