In this spellbinding thriller and YA debut frombestselling author Marti Leimbach, Kira Adams has discovered a cure fordeath--and it may just cost her life. Now available in paperback.Things aren't going well for Kira. At home, she cares forher mother and fends off debt collectors. At school, she's awkward and shy.Plus, she may flunk out if she doesn't stop obsessing about science, herpassion and the one thing she's good at . . . very good at.When she wins a prestigious science contest she draws theattention of the celebrated professor Dr. Gregory Munn (as well as his handsomeassistant), leading to a part-time job in a top-secret laboratory. The job is mostly cleaning floors and equipment, but onenight, while running her own experiment, she revives a lab rat that has died inher care. One minute it is dead, the next it is not. Suddenly she's the remarkable wunderkind, the girl who canbring back the dead. Everything is going her way. But it turns out that sciencecan be a dangerous business, and Kira is swept up into a world of internationalrivalry with dark forces that threaten her life.