I took hold of her hands, their bones tiny and birdlike, squeezed them gently. I felt like shaking them, shaking her into the panic I was feeling.? Virginia, I don't understand.? Fourteen-year-old Ivy is flabbergasted when her childhood friend Virginia claims that she has been visited by an angel who has asked her to bear the child of God. As Ivy struggles to understand and help her friend, she uncovers more secrets, including an apocalyptic plot being devised by Virginia's weird brother, Paul. Ivy suspects Paul's activities must connect in some way to Virginia's claim but she's uncertain how. Soon Ivy finds herself caught up in a chain of events she has no control over.

 

There are 287 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Kids Can Press .

Susan Hughes is the Toronto-based award-winning author of more than thirty children's books, including picture books, chapter books, YA novels, and non-fiction for all ages. She is also a freelance editor and story coach.