Author Description

About the Author Time Bowler is the author of the popular Blade series for young adults, which The Horn Book called "an addictive blend of paranoia and suspense." His YA novel River Boy won the prestigious Carnegie Medal in the United Kingdom, where he lives. Product Description It starts with the phone call late at night. The mysterious boy says he is dying. Dusty doesn't want to get involved - but the boy seems to have a link to the one person who's most important to her. Soon she has been drawn in - and now she has to deal with the other people who are looking for the boy: the violent man and his two sons and the police, too.... Yet throughout all this, Dusty senses the presence of a boy who is not dying, a strange, elusive boy who can show her what happened to her missing brother and solve the greatest mystery of her life. Where he is, who he is, why he wants to die, she cannot say. Only one thing is certain. Finding him will be dangerous.