Sixteen-year-old Declan Lynch starts hearing the voice of a girl inside his head. It isn't long until he starts falling in love and sets out on a quest that brings him to the shores of Ireland, and places where the "real" world seems like a thin veil stretched over someplace else, in the hopes of finding her.

Lesley Choyce is the author of over ninety books. His previous verse novel, Jeremy Stone, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. He has won the Dartmouth Book Award, the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and the Ann Connor Brimer Award.