Ten-year-old Maliane is a carefree, go nowhere English schoolgirl with boring parents and a pain-in-the-neck kid brother. But she's close to being four thousand days old, when carefree will cease to be an option. Never aging, never getting sick--still needing to survive... tough enough in this world, near impossible when trapped in another.
Maliane's life is upended when her family abruptly relocates to a fishing village off the coast of Virginia...