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Sylvia Bell, better known as Vee, hates that she has narcolepsy, just like her mother did. But collapsing at school – however embarrassingly – is nowhere near as bad as the real truth. That when Vee passes out she actually slides randomly into other’s people’s heads and ends up seeing things she really doesn’t want to. That’s how she knew Ms Gomez, the Spanish teacher, came on to her Psych teacher Mr Goldsmith in the paper closet. And how Vee witnessed her younger sister, Mattie, plotting to torture her friend Sophie by text message. But when Vee finds herself in the head of a killer, standing over Sophie’s slashed and murdered body, she’s beyond freaked.

Only Vee knows that Sophie didn’t kill herself. And when another cheerleader turns up dead, Vee realizes that someone is picking off Mattie’s friends and making it look like suicide. Suddenly everyone is a suspect, and Sylvia is terrified that Mattie might be next. Struggling to understand and control her bizarre and lonely illness (or gift?), Vee finds herself enmeshed in a terrifying web of secrets, lies and danger. Now the past has come back to haunt the present, and as Vee deals once more with her mother’s death so many years before, and tries to work out the real meaning of love and courage, she must face up to the fact that she can trust no one – not even the family and friends she thought she knew.

Category: Young Adult