Two days before the start of her junior year, seventeen-year-old Janelle Tenner is hit by a pickup truck and killed?as in blinding light, scenes of her life flashing before her, and then nothing. Except the next thing she knows, she's opening her eyes to find Ben Michaels, a loner from her high school whom Janelle has never talked to, leaning over her. And even though it isn't possible, she knows?with every fiber of her being?that Ben has somehow brought her back to life.
Like The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Elizabeth Norriss Unraveling blends realistic coming-of-age issues with a gripping science fiction world.Unravelings heroine, sixteen-year-old Janelle Tenner, is used to having a lot of responsibility. She balances working as a lifeguard in San Diego with an intense academic schedule. Janelles mother is bipolar, and her dad is a workaholic FBI agent, which means Janelle also has to look out for her younger brother, Jared.And that was before she diedand is brought back to life by Ben Michaels, a mysterious, alluring loner from her high school. When she discovers a strange clock that seems to be counting down to the earths destruction, Janelle learns she has twenty-four days to figure out how to stop the clock and save the planet.