In the tradition of Sara Zarr and A. S. King, a girl must survive an extreme wilderness experience to prove to her mother that she has the strength to pursue her dreams.Then: Ingrid traveled all over Europe with her opera star mother, Margot-Sophia.

Life was beautiful and bright, and every day soared with music.Now: Ingrid is on a summertime wilderness survival trek for at-risk teensaddicts, runaways, and her.

She's fighting to survive crushing humiliations, physical challenges that push her to her limits, and mind games that threaten to break her.Then: When the curtain fell on Margot-Sophia's singing career, they buried the past and settled into a small, painfully normal life.

But Ingrid longed to let the music soar again. She wanted it so much that, for a while, nothing else mattered.Now: Ingrid is never going to make it through this summer if she can't figure out why she's here, what happened to Margot-Sophia, and why the music really stopped.