What if the best day of your life turns out to be the last day of your life? And what if there is no one who cares enough to find out what really happened, except your best friend? Fifteen-year-old Vickie Bartolucci knows the Blueberry Hill Home for Troubled Youth is where all the rich families quietly warehouse their kids. Raised by a working-class, single mother, Vickie is half Korean, half Italian, and one hundred percent herself. Convinced she doesn't have a chance of fitting in, the last thing she expects is to find a friend who likes her for who she is. And, like a bodega cat, once Vickie is your friend, you have to try hard to get rid of her. Yep, you have yourself a friend for life, a friend to the end. When teenagers disappear from Blueberry Hill and her new best friend dies, Vickie and her reluctant band of fellow patients must discover what's happening before one of them is next. It's a motley crew, but all she's got . . . Tracy, the heartthrob Eagen, the Goth kid Squirt, the nerd Annie, the weird one Julie, the pretty one If nothing else, Vickie owes it to her friend to do everything she can to find out the truth, even if it means risking her own life-or worse. That's what friends do.