When a new girl arrives in town, seemingly from the future, three teens' lives are turned upside down in this speculative YA novel full of love and loss, and the power of the unknown.
Seventeen-year-old Nell knows two things for sure—she's never going to get out of her rural, dead-end hometown of Clawson, NY and her best friend Stevie B. and longtime boyfriend Cole are never going to leave her. That is until a new girl arrives at their school, Charlotte, and their lop-sided friend triangle is turned on its axis. And while Nell and Stevie B. are certain that Charlotte isn't quite who she says she is, Cole is caught fully in her thrall. There are secret calls and meetings between the two and Nell knows Cole is keeping something big from her. For the first time since they met, Nell worries she could lose Cole.
When Nell finally confronts them, she learns the impossible truth: Charlotte is actually from the future, a future that holds a life-saving cure for Cole's younger sister who has been in and out of the hospital for years. To access the cure, Cole will have to jump to the future himself, leaving Nell behind. It's dangerous, it's reckless, but it's also the only choice they have. The trio's future has always seemed set—but with the knowledge that time travel is real and a multiverse of futures before them, they now have the option to live lives they could only dream about. The only questions are will they take the leap and will someone be left behind.
