Petula has avoided friendship and happiness ever since tragedy struck her family and took her beloved younger sister Maxine. Worse, Petula blames herself. If only she'd kept an eye on her sister, if only she'd sewn the button Maxine choked on better, if only...
Now her anxiety is getting out of control, she is forced to attend the worlds most hopeless art therapy class. But one day, in walks the Bionic Man: a charming, amazingly tall newcomer called Jacob, who is also an amputee. Petula's ready to freeze him out, just like she did with her former best friend, but when shes paired with Jacob for a class project, theres no denying they have brilliant ideas together ideas like remakingWuthering Heights with cats.
But Petula and Jacob each have desperately painful secrets in their pasts and when the truth comes out, theres no way Petula is ready for it.

Susin Nielsen got her start writing for popular television series,Degrassi Junior High. Since then, shes written for many Canadian TV shows and her young adult novels have received considerable critical acclaim.Word Nerd andMy Messed-Up Life won multiple Young Readers Choice Awards.The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen won the UKLA Award, the prestigious Governor Generals Literary Award, the Canadian Library Associations Childrens Book of the Year and many Young Readers Choice Awards, whileWe Are All Made of Molecules was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Susin lives in Vancouver with her family and two extremely destructive cats.