Matti's life is not easy. She has Tourette's, a bio-neurological condition characterized among other things by involuntary spasms or tics. In her case these tics are primarily vocal. Early in the book she confides, "At school they called me Tourette's Girl, like I came out of a phone booth wearing a costume and made funny noises for people' s entertainment. But I was a serious person, waiting for a serious purpose. " When a young man with amnesia wanders out of the heart of wildfire country and collapses at her feet, Matti believes she? found that purpose--in fact she promises to save his life. But the world Dan comes from is far darker than Matti' s, and the price of keeping her promise greater than she could have imagined.

>" --Glen Huser, 2003 Governor General gold medallist for "Stitches"

>"--Holley Rubinsky, author of "South of Elfrida," 2013