From Lois Metzger, the acclaimed author of A Trick of the Light, comes a work of speculative fiction set in the near future about a teen girl who gains a new perspective on her life. Perfect for readers who enjoyed Adam Silvera’s More Happy than Not.

Rose has changed. She still lives in the same neighborhood and goes to the same high school with the same group of kids, but when she woke up today, something was a little different. Her clothes and her hair don’t suit her anymore. The dogs who live upstairs are no longer a terror. She wants to throw a party—this from a girl who hardly ever spoke to her classmates. There’s no more sadness in her life; she’s bursting with happiness.

But something still feels wrong to Rose. Because until very recently, she was an entirely different person—a person who’s still there inside her, just beneath the thinnest layer of skin.

• A Mind-Bending Premise: One morning, Clara Hartel wakes up as Rose—a happy, popular girl she’s never been. But the old Clara is still there, just under the surface.
• Near-Future Sci-Fi: Set in a world of hydro-buses and virtual dissections, where cutting-edge technology offers the ultimate escape from trauma... for a price.
• Memory Manipulation: Rose’s perfect new life comes with a single rule: don’t ask questions. But as fragments of a past she can’t remember begin to surface, she has to wonder if her happiness is even real.
• Psychological Thriller Elements: As Rose unravels the truth about her transformation, the story shifts from a contemporary drama to a tense race to reclaim a life that was stolen from her.