Zack Earnest will die today.
That's okay. He'll be back from the dead tomorrow.
You Only Live Once? Not here.
Here the rules of life and death don't apply.
Whisked away from his home, his only friend and his mother's scrumptious eggs, 17-year-old Zack finds himself a stranger in a strange land, surrounded by other teenagers from his world and many others, held hostage and thrust into barbaric games by an ancient species known only as the Ankhs.
The Ankhs are in their death throes and seek a "Spark" to survive. Zack and sixteen others just like him may possess it.
Along the way Zack falls for the girl (in the solar system) next door, and they soon discover the Ankh's intentions are not what they seem and that sometimes, no matter how badly you want a thing, you can't have it.
From the best-selling author of Nine Meals comes a story of hope and redemption, of patience and understanding, of acceptance and belonging and that, even in the center of the universe, love is a constant.
That's okay. He'll be back from the dead tomorrow.
You Only Live Once? Not here.
Here the rules of life and death don't apply.
Whisked away from his home, his only friend and his mother's scrumptious eggs, 17-year-old Zack finds himself a stranger in a strange land, surrounded by other teenagers from his world and many others, held hostage and thrust into barbaric games by an ancient species known only as the Ankhs.
The Ankhs are in their death throes and seek a "Spark" to survive. Zack and sixteen others just like him may possess it.
Along the way Zack falls for the girl (in the solar system) next door, and they soon discover the Ankh's intentions are not what they seem and that sometimes, no matter how badly you want a thing, you can't have it.
From the best-selling author of Nine Meals comes a story of hope and redemption, of patience and understanding, of acceptance and belonging and that, even in the center of the universe, love is a constant.
