Brilliant teenage outcast Min Marín is dying from a premature aging disease. Because of her silver hair, Min’s high school classmates think she looks old enough to be their mom. Only Art, her crush, understands her—maybe because he has the same affliction that will kill them before they’re thirty. Min’s only chance at a normal life is the unproven cure derived from a rare flowering vine Passiflora delicatus. Of course, it’s only found in the foreboding jungle of the Darièn Gap in Colombia.
When the Chicago lab developing the cure is sold and transported to a secretive Colombian research facility, Min moves with the research team and meets the new owner’s son, a dangerous military school dropout. His interest in Min shows that maybe her disease doesn’t make her worthless. But after Min learns that the owner schemes to drain her blood to cure aging billionaires, she must use all her brains and guile to discover the cure’s formula and escape the jungle compound before they steal the last trickle of her life.
TR Foster Author 