THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD EVA wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach.

Her mother leans over the bed and begins to explain.

A traffic accident, a long coma . . .But there is something, Eva senses, that shes not being told.

There is a price she must pay to be alive at all. What have they done, with their amazing medical techniques, to save her?From the Paperback edition.