When the booming echoes of another reality's tragedy become impossible to ignore, Sal compels Lila to explore her alternate lives for clues—but every life she dreams means waking to powerful new memories of the one man she can’t allow herself to love.Yet there’s no time for her paltry human drama—not with entire realities at stake, a genius child to protect from meddling aliens, dark energies crowding out her angels…oh, and a clothing store to manage. Because, you know…real life.

A sassy and sweet coming-of-age story full of laughter, tears, and everyday strangeness!"My mother was a no-nonsense woman. If it wasn't in the Bible or on Jerry Springer, then it couldn't happen. Of course, there's a lot of freaky stuff in the Good Book, with ladders to heaven and angels with animal faces and such. And crazy, muckraking talk shows probably aren't the best yardstick for anything short of how depraved humans can be. But the point is that when sh...

Most children are afraid of the dark. She knows better.Six-year-old Madeline Galloway knows she's unlikeable. Unlovable. Uncanny. She senses what others can't—the children who don't belong to this world.When she encounters a strange man watching the schoolyard, she believes she's finally found someone who understands. Someone who can save the lost ones.She names him Lucy. She trusts him. And she helps him find them.