After her ikusin (grandmother) dies, Kai Hunter, a part Navajo, part Stoney Nakoda sixteen-year-old, runs away to Banff, Alberta, to avoid being placed in a foster home. Kai lies her way into a new identity, a job and a safe place to live. She makes new friends and volunteers with a rapid-attack crew for the forestry service. She even meets a great guy named Rory, who's into motorcycles, just like her-and who seems to be into her too. But Kai is scared of being found out, and she isn't sure that she can trust all of her new friendsâ¿¿or that she likes the person she's pretending to be.

Jacqueline Guest is a Métis writer who lives in a log cabin nestled in the pinewoods of Alberta, Canada's Rocky Mountains. She is the proud recipient of the 2013 Indspire Award for the Arts, formerly the National Aboriginal Achievement Award. Her books have received numerous awards, including the Moonbeam Gold Medal for Ghost Messages and Outcasts of River Falls.