"Amber Hewerdine has been suffering from chronic insomnia ever since her best friend's tragic death. As a last resort she visits a hypnotherapist, doubtful that anything will really change. Under hypnosis, Amber hears herself saying 'Kind, cruel, kind of cruel.' The words awaken a vague memory, but she dismisses the whole episode as nonsense. Two hours later, Amber is arrested for the brutal murder of a woman she's never heard of. And the only...

Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution, and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year.