Two boys on opposite ends of the world begin an unlikely friendship in
this William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist.
Ollie and Moritz are two teenagers who will never meet. Each of them
lives with a life-affecting illness. Contact with electricity sends
Ollie into debilitating seizures while Moritz has a heart defect and is
kept alive by an electronic pacemaker. If they did meet, Ollie would
seize, but turning off the pacemaker would kill Moritz. Through an
exchange of letters, the two boys develop a strong bond of friendship
that becomes a lifeline during dark times--until Moritz reveals that he
holds the key to their shared, sinister past and has been keeping it
from Ollie all along.