"Adam can't even grow a man beard yet, but he can do something his friends can't do—go to Limbo and back. Prepare to root for him as he makes new friends, discovers who he is, and saves a few souls in the process. This is a fast-paced, page-turning story!" —Skila Brown, author of Caminar

Adam wants nothing more than to be a "normal" teen, but his reality is quickly leaking normal. Afraid to sleep because of the monster that stalks him in his dreams, Adam's breakdown at school in front of his crush Sarah lands him in the hospital.

Now Adam can only vaguely comprehend some sort of future. His mother died when he was only four and his eccentric father—who might be an assassin, a voodoo god, the reincarnation of the Buddha, or something even stranger—is never available when Adam really needs him.

Adam's life takes an even stranger turn when a fat man with a gold tooth and a medallion confronts his father regarding Adam's supposed "true destiny." Adam is soon headed toward a collision with life, death, and the entities charged with shepherding souls of the newly dead, all competing to control lucrative territories where some nightmares are real and psychopomps of ancient legends walk the streets of North America.

J.L. Powers is the award-winning author of three young adult novels and one picture book. She is founder and editor of the blog The Pirate Tree: Social Justice and Children's Literature. She served as a jurist for the 2014 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature.

M.A. Powers, J.L.'s "little" (but much taller) brother, has a PhD in the oncological sciences from the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah–Salt Lake City. He lives in Maine

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