The tables are turned with a vengeance in this tour de force love story. Nearly a year has gone by and now it's Dorothy who is fragmented and lost, while Joey keeps the promise he had made her to better himself-even though she's gone. Joey talks about what is happening in the present while Dorothy describes what happened before- in the moments and hours after the Glock dropped. This time the stakes are even higher, as Joey forces himself to move forward...

Nate and his mother are escaping from his emotionally abusive step-father, Gary, but the run-down and abandoned cottage in the woods that his mother takes them to does not seem like much of a refuge; but when his mother goes off to buy provisions and does not come back Nate is left alone (except for his imaginary friend Sam) and afraid--until a mysterious girl trying to solve the clues of a long-ago treasure hunt turns up.