~~Passing my not be my specialty...but something else is~~
Welcome to the world of Passers, where it's not unusual for people to slip right through solids. It's a world within the world today; Passers are normal people...except for their special skill.
Meet Skylar McKnight, a 14 year old Passer, who, frankly, just can't Pass right. She can't help it; every time she tries to Pass Through, she gets thrown back. Solids just don't like her. Neither does most of her school. Students don't bother hiding their snickers and whispers, when it comes to her. But Skylar doesn't care; or at least, she tries not to. She sticks with her roommates, keeps up her sarcastic attitude, and tries again and again to Pass right. Little does she know that her life is about to become so much more complicated.
Skylar has a skill. It's hidden in her blood, her bones, her very cells. Yet, no one knows exactly what it is. Sky's as curious as everyone else; yet she hesitates to dig deeper. After all, the events of just one day can't convince her to uncover secrets she didn't know existed. Problem is, Sky can't afford to wait too long.
People want her, and not for anything good. At least, that is what she can assume from all the events taking place around her. Sky doesn't want, doesn't care, doesn't feel like being submerged into this new society. Except, no one cares about that. She struggles to go back to her world, to go back to where she thinks she belongs, but what she doesn't know keeps her trapped.
There are hidden layers beneath what Sky knows of, locked doors hidden within what she's explored. She can't see them, and doesn't want to either. Yet her 'ability' keeps pulling her back, again and again, and she realizes that what she really needs to do is to simply turn around and face it all. The people she hated taught her that problems aren't solved by escaping them.
So Sky sets out to do what she has to do, find what she has to find, and become who she must become.
"He seemed like a puzzle to me, and I really liked solving puzzles. But somehow, I don't think that I would ever be able to solve this one."
Amelia Heart, with her large smile and her infectious laugh, is what most people would think has the perfect life. They would watch as she went back to her beach house, as she went out of her way to stop and chat to her neighbours, as she would get the perfect grades. She was everything you wanted to be, and yet nobody had gotten close enough to her to understand her life in this small town at all.
When her plans of leaving suddenly change, and she is forced to start attending the local school, her life takes a route that she hadn't accounted for. A new group of friends, a chance at a normal teenage life, even a potential love interest - things that Amelia had never even thought about happening after everything she'd been through.
But happiness is only temporary in her life, and she knew that.
It wasn't surprising to her when her past began to catch up with her present, it was simply a good thing that it had taken as long as it had. Things start happening in Amelia's life that simply don't make sense, even to her. They do say you should always keep an eye over your shoulder, especially when you know you're being hunted, but for Amelia, even an eye in every direction wouldn't be enough.
Time begins counting down, fast. Did she want to involve her friends? Could the new people in her life be trusted? She wouldn't have long to make a decision. Not before her world comes blazing down, the final battle on the horizon.
Tick, tock, Amelia. You don't want to be late to the party when you're the guest of honour.
COMPLETED 06/11/20