M. Scott Carter follows up his well received young adult novel debut, STEALING KEVIN'S HEART, with another tender love story with a twist. When Josie Brunswick has to move to Europe so her dad can head up a new secret world genetics lab, she doesn't think life could get any worse. Then her beloved musician mother dies, and she is left to all but raise herself. Music becomes her one reason to live, until an experiment in her dad's lab gives her something unbelievable to focus on, something that will send her on a mad and dangerous adventure through Europe and through time. Before it s all over THE IMMORTAL VON B. will have answered the question: Could a teen-age girl from this century find love with a young composer from another?