Fourteen-year-old Lanosha is different than the other teenagers living in Gaelic, British Columbia. Although she has learned to embrace her pale skin, the yellow tint in her eyes, and her supernatural ability to generate different forms of light with her mind, Lanosha feels like she does not fit in anywhere--not at school and not at home. Plagued by insecurities and confusing feelings for a new friend, Thomas, Lanosha cannot help but wonder about her birth mother, who died shortly after she was born.Lanosha is warned by Thomas in a nightmare that she is in danger, and soon afterward she...

Fourteen-year-old Lanosha is different than the other teenagers living in Gaelic, British Columbia. Although she has learned to embrace her pale skin, the yellow tint in her eyes, and her supernatural ability to generate different forms of light with her mind, Lanosha feels like she does not fit in anywhere--not at school and not at home. Plagued by insecurities and confusing feelings for a new friend, Thomas, Lanosha cannot help but wonder about her birth mother, who died shortly after she was born.Lanosha is warned by Thomas in a nightmare that she is in danger, and soon afterward she...