Carol Lynch Williams

After her grampa dies, the last place Libby expects to see him is sitting on the edge of her bed. But that's what happens the night after the funeral. Even more surprising is that Grampa has three important things to tell her: first, that she isn't alone or forgotten-"The dead ain't never that far from the liv­ing," he says; second, that she has "the Sight"-the ability to see family mem­bers who have died; and third, that there is something special...

The Haven (a hospital that helps Terminals control the Disease that has robbed them of their limbs, lungs, and memories) is lying. Two teenagers -- Shiloh and Gideon -- suspect the truth. What if the Haven is not the safe place it claims to be? And what will happen if Shiloh starts asking dangerous questions and Gideon starts rebelling against the status quo as he dreams of a cure for the Disease?

In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.