Wesley's love for Laken takes him to dark places he never believed existed, and what he discovers dismantles his world as he knows it. And one thing is for sure, the Celestra that's giving her these powers is going to have to pay. Wesley is sure that what he and Laken share is special but when it becomes apparent that she's reading his mind, he's determined to get to the bottom of her true intentions. Old bonds are slowly severed as new ones are galvanized. The love she feels for her boyfriend, Wesley, is compromised when gorgeous Cooper Flanders teams up with her in the fight to free their families. With the memory of her past life still firmly intact, Laken moves deeper into the Countenance organization in an effort to free her mother and sister from the deadly Celestra tunnels. Her resurrection at the hands of the Countenance hasn't run smoothly. Sixteen-year-old Laken Stewart died last summer. Laken Stewart knows she died on that hot July afternoon, but now she's alive-or is she? In her quest for answers she meets Cooper Flanders, the son of her psychiatrist who readily believes every word she says. According to Wesley the other life she had-her name, her family, they were simply a side effect of her brain trauma. He is quick to inform her she suffered a horrible fall and that her memory hasn't fully returned.

Laken discovers her long dead boyfriend, Wesley, has been thrown into this alternate world as well. Two months dissolve without her knowledge and she finds herself in unfamiliar surroundings with strangers who not only profess to know her but insist she's someone else entirely. The last thing Laken Stewart remembers is the oncoming car, then bursting through the windshield. In the grand scheme of things, you'll be dead a lot longer than you'll ever be alive.

Ephemeral by Addison Moore