A flash of white light . . . and then . . . nothing.

A bright light is the last thing sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew remembers before waking up behind the Gas 'n' Sip with a raging headache, a malfunctioning cell phone, and a major case of déjà vu. She trudges home to discover that she's not missing just a few hours?five years have passed . . . yet she hasn't aged a day.

Everything else has changed: her parents are divorced, her boyfriend, Austin, is in college and dating her best friend, and her dad has gone from a neat-freak to a conspiracy theorist who believes Kyra was abducted by little green men. Confused, Kyra turns to Austin's younger brother, Tyler, who is no longer a kid.

But as Tyler and Kyra retrace her steps, they come across strange phenomena neither of them can explain. Suddenly Kyra's dad doesn't seem all that crazy. There are others like her who have been taken . . . and returned.

As Kyra struggles to reclaim the life she once had, there's a chance the life she wants back is not her own.

Kimberly Derting is the author of the Cece Loves Science series, the Body Finder series, the Pledge trilogy, and the Taking series. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, where the gloomy weather is ideal for writing anything dark and creepy. Her three beautiful (and often mouthy) children serve as an endless source of inspiration and frequently find things they say buried in the pages of their mother's books. You can visit her online at www.kimberlyderting.com.