Elizabeth Langston lives in North Carolina, USA. She is married with two twenty-something daughters. By day, Elizabeth is a software engineer. At night, she is immersed in books--either reading or writing them. When she has free time, Elizabeth loves to travel to far-away places with her family.
Elizabeth writes teen fiction--realistic stories with a magical twist. She has two trilogies available now: the I WISH series and the WHISPER FALLS series.
I WISH series: This trilogy tells the story of a "genie", Grant, who helps 3 friends survive the hardest year of their lives. In I WISH (book #1), Lacey is juggling her final year of high school, mounting bills, a mother with mental illness, and a brother who is soccer-mad. In WISHING FOR YOU (book #2), Kimberley has a disability that will make it difficult for her to go to college or find a job. Book #3--WISH YOU WERE HERE--tells the story of Sara, a girl who is in mourning from a terrible tragedy.
WHISPER FALLS series: Mark is a modern-day teen athlete (mountain bike racer) who discovers an odd girl wearing strange clothes in the woods where he is training. Susanna is an indentured servant living in 1796--and a magical waterfall is the portal they use to visit each other's century. Their story is told in 3 books: WHISPER FALLS, A WHISPER IN TIME, and WHISPERS FROM THE PAST. Each book has a complete story; there are no cliff-hangers.
WHISPER FALLS won a bronze medal in the Moonbeam Award for Excellence in Children's Fiction--Young Adult Historical/Cultural category. In a review, School Library Journal called WHISPER FALLS "a fun,action-packed story" and said that "the history is well researched, and readers will enjoy the realistic portrayal of (US) southern life in the late 1700s."
I WISH was a finalist in the prestigious Romance Writers of America (RWA) Golden Heart award. The review from School Library Journal says "… Langston wisely limits the power of wishes, so there can be no easy fixes to complex problems. Lacey cannot simply wish away her debt or her mother’s trauma. This allows the story to remain grounded in the everyday struggles and relationships of Lacey, her friends, and her family. It is all the better for it, putting the focus on the compelling and sympathetic characters."
Elizabeth also writes YA contemporary romance, as Julia Day.
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An 18th-century servant girl immigrates to modern North Carolina and, along with her boyfriend, fights to establish her identity and protect her sister in the past.
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A genie grants a month of wishes to a struggling teenage girl.
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A teen boy in modern-day North Carolina and an indentured servant girl from 1796 meet through a waterfall that allows them to talk, and then to travel across the centuries.
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A teen girl with a memory disability from leukemia learns the value of her differences through a friend's tragic illness and a modern-day genie.
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