Everything has been downhill since Zoey Trask s mother was murdered in a
random mugging. Her younger brother, Ben, is on the autistic spectrum
and needs constant supervision. It s senior year, and she s the new girl
at a weird private school in Old Town Alexandria, VA, full of kids who
seem too nice to be true including a very cute boy named Pete. Aside
from half-forgotten martial arts and survivalist skills that her widowed
father "insisted" on teaching her (because that is excellent for her
social life), Zoey has nothing to offer Pete or anyone else.
Then Dad is kidnapped. Zoey suddenly finds herself sole caretaker of a
younger brother she barely understands. Worse, Ben seems to hold the key
to their father s disappearance in his Dream Diary, a bizarre journal of
names and places Ben claims that their mother shares from beyond the
grave.And as if Zoey doesn t have enough on her plate, there s Pete, who
stubbornly refuses to leave her side.
Relying on the skills she never wanted to learn Dad might have had his
reasons after all Zoey is plunged into a lethal battle to rescue her
father, protect her brother, and determine the identity of her family s
true enemy."
