A clever tale about breaking free from the past . . . Kirkus Reviews
[ A] vivid tapestry with an absolutely explosive ending. K. Ancrum, author of Icarus and The Wicker King
Mara Cassidy is going to die . . . again.
For seventeen years, Evan Kiernans life has felt like painting by someone elses numbers, moving and transferring schools every time his mom has a breakup. But when hes accepted into NYUs Promising Young Artist program for his senior year, the future suddenly feels like a blank canvas.
However, it soon becomes clear that the city has peculiar ties to his past. A thunderstorm finds him under the same umbrella as an eerily familiar green-eyed girl. A visit to an art gallery brings him face-to-face with a heavily tattooed portrait of himself. He sees things that arent thereat least not anymore. And the girl hes falling in love with is somehow at the center of it all.
When history suddenly points to a devastating future, Evan must race against time to figure out who is pulling the strings and change the green-eyed girls fatea race hes already lost twice.
For readers who enjoy Strange Unearthly Things by Kelly Creagh, The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert, Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross, and The Hundred Loves of Juliet by Evelyn Skye.
Short Summary: When a seventeen-year-old art student falls in love with a mysteriously familiar girl, he realizes shes about to die. Again. If he cant put the pieces of their past together in time to change her fate, hell lose herand himselfforever.