"There once was a girl who read feet.
Sixteen-year-old Summer Field is Old Town’s fascinating new sole reader. She can tell how many steps one has left to take in life. It’s true. Her Gift is scientifically proven. She—they all—are bound by the lines that never lie. None more so than Summer’s best friend, Bryony.
Bryony, who’s only ever dreamed of running the Boston marathon, is shocked to learn she has only five steps to go. An instant slave to the fortune teller’s shack on the side of the road, Bryony hopes for a miracle while Summer does her very best to beat the lines. Because you can’t finish a marathon in five steps. With five steps, the only thing you finish is life."
"Sixteen-year-old Stella dreams in such detail that she can't be sure which side of wakefulness is reality. Some days she is Stella Barone, private school rich girl, and others she is Stella McGillivray, poor waif from the east valley. She lives in the same city, only a matter of miles, and a full week, apart.
Diagnosed with nightmare disorder, Stella's condition becomes especially significant when her friends start disappearing on both sides of wakefulness. Someone is taking them and she has the peculiar means of finding out who, if only she can avoid being taken herself."
