From rising star Jessica Goodman author of They Wish They Were Us comes a second slick
fast-paced thriller about two sisters vying for the top spot on their cross-country team and
the new girl who threatens to take everything they've worked for away...until she
disappears.Ellie and Stella Steckler are only a year apart but their different personalities
make their relationship complicated. Stella is single-minded driven and intense.
Cross-country running is her life and she won't let anything get in the way of being the best.
Her sister Ellie is a talented runner too but she also lets herself have fun. She has friends.
She goes to parties. She has a life outside of cross-country.The sisters do have one thing in
common though: the new girl Mila Keene. Both Stella's and Ellie's lives are upended when Mila
comes to town. Mila was the top runner on her team back home and Ellie and Stella see her as a
threat. But Ellie can't help but be drawn to her warm charming personality. After her best
friend moved away and her first boyfriend turned out to be a total jerk Ellie's been looking
for a friend. To her surpise Stella too can't help but see Mila as funny and strong--someone
she can confide in finally. As the two get closer Stella becomes something she vowed she'd
never be: distracted.With regionals approaching the pressure is on. Each of their futures are
on the line and friendship or even something more won't get in their way. But then suddenly
Mila goes out on a training run and never returns. No one knows what happened but all eyes are
on the Steckler sisters.
