Sixteen Minutes

When a new girl arrives in town,seemingly from the futurethree teens’ lives are turned upside down in this speculative YA novel full of love and lossand the power of the unknown. Seventeen-year-old Nell knows two things for sureΓÇösheΓÇÖs never going to get out of her ruraldead-end hometown of ClawsonNY and her best friend Stevie B and longtime boyfriend Cole are never going to leave her. That is until Charlottea new girlarrives at their school and their lopsided friend triangle is turned on its axis. While Nell and Stevie B are certain that Charlotte isnΓÇÖt who she says she isCole is caught fully in her thrall. There are secret calls and meetings between the twoand Nell knows Cole is keeping something big from her. Nowfor the first time in their livesNell worries she could lose Cole. When Nell and Stevie B finally confront Cole and Charlottethey learn the impossibleΓÇöCharlotte is actually from the futureand for life altering reasons none of them could have imaginedshe wants Cole to jump to the future with herleaving Nell behind. ItΓÇÖs dangerousitΓÇÖs recklessbut Charlotte convinces them that itΓÇÖs the only choice they have. The trioΓÇÖs future has always seemed setΓÇöbut with the knowledge that time travel is realand with a multiverse of futures before themthey now have the option to live lives they could have only dreamed about. The only questions arewho will take the leap and who will be left behind?