From the author of THE BRIDGE FROM ME TO YOU, a groundbreaking novel
about what matters most -- when time is running out.
What do you do with your last day on earth?
There are 27 hours and fifteen minutes left until an asteroid strikes
North America, and, for Emerson and everyone else who didn't leave, the
world will end. But Emerson's world already ended when she ran away from
home last year. Since then she has lived on the streets, relying on her
wits and her friend Vince to help her find places to sleep and food to
eat.
The city's quieter now that most people are gone, and no one seems to
know what to do as the end approaches. But then Emerson and Vince meet
Carl, who tells them that he has been granting people's wishes. He gave
his car away so a woman could take her son to see the ocean for the
first time, and he gives Emerson and Vince all the money he has in his
wallet.
Suddenly this last day seems full of possibility. Emerson and Vince can
grant a lot of wishes in 27 hours -- maybe even their own.