Thea Denny hates the tenth grade, and her home life isn’t easy. But she’s passionate about making art—and about her math-genius boyfriend, Cam, a recent transfer to her upstate New York high school from California.

One day Cam mysteriously vanishes—and then things really get weird. The stars on the school flag go missing, eerily cut out.

Intimate videos of Cam and Thea start going viral online—videos they never took. The FBI gets involved. And Thea can hear the voice of Melody—a beautiful, disabled girl her age, whose illness has left her mute since birth.

Cam once claimed to be the world’s foremost hacker.... Is he trying to reach her, send her a sign—or is Thea losing her mind?

### Amazon.com Review

"Eldridge’s debut is a mind-bending blend of innovative science fiction and a stream-of-conscious writing style." *School Library Journal* August 2013

“Courtney Eldridge’s *Ghost Time* grabs you on the first page and holds you captive until the last word. It’s a haunting, well-crafted, page turner. Eldridge is a talented author with an exceptional voice. She has written a book with a unique storyline which will have teens anxiously awaiting the sequel.” — Bonnie Shimko, author of * You Know What You Have To Do*

### From School Library Journal

Gr 10 Up–Eldridge's debut is a mind-bending blend of innovative science fiction and a stream-of-conscious writing style. Fifteen-year-old Thea's world is rocked when her hacker boyfriend, Cam, disappears, seemingly into thin air. He leaves behind few clues, and what investigators do find is as baffling as his disappearance itself. Then,inexplicable events begin happening in Thea's small, otherwise-quiet community. Images that look like her drawings show up on Flickr, sex tapes of the teens appear online (but they never made the videos), and strange graffiti is showing up all over town. Once Thea discovers a glowing tattoo over a scar on her shoulder, she grows even more confused. As the story draws to a close, readers will find that the mysteries only get more mysterious, and the answers only raise more questions. The frequent sexual episodes and cursing make this novel best suited to older teens. The story is unique, but the chronology changes frequently and the dialogue is not set apart by quotation marks, which will make this novel difficult for many readers.–Anna Berger, formerly Literature Consultant, Piper City, ILα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.