From the Printz Award-winning author of Satellite comes a compelling
new novel about a girl who must brave the elements to help a lost child
with an otherworldly secret.
Sixteen-year-old Emily is on the run. Between her parents and the
trouble she's recently gotten into at school, she has more than enough
reason to get away. But when she finds a little boy named Aidan
wandering in the woods, she knows she needs to help him find his way
home. But getting home is no easy matter, especially when Emily finds
out that Aidan isn't even from Earth. When their plane crashes into the
side of a snowy mountain, it's up to Emily to ensure Aidan and their
pilot, Bob, make it off the mountain alive. Pursued by government forces
who want to capture Aidan, the unlikely team of three trek across the
freezing landscape, learning more about each other, and about life, than
they ever thought possible.
I love Nick Lake's writing. I would read anything he wrote--grocery
list, email, etc.--because his writing, always, is so real and brave. He
takes on subjects other writers might avoid, and he writes the hell out
of them. --New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Niven on Nick
Lake