The Eighth Day

WHEN NEWLY ORPHANED JAX AUBREY awakes to a world without people the day after his thirteenthbirthday, he thinks it’s the apocalypse. But then the next day is a regular old Thursday. Has Jax gone crazy? What’sgoing on?Riley Pendare, Jax’s sort of clueless eighteen-year-old guardian, breaks the news: Jax just experienced the EighthDay, an extra twenty-four-hour period between Wednesday and Thursday. Some people, like Jax and Riley, have theability to live in all eight days. But others, like Evangeline, the teenage girl who’s been hiding in the house next doorfor years, exist only on this special day.At first it’s awesome to have a secret day. But as Jax gets to know the very guarded Evangeline, he discovers thatshe is the sought-after key to an ancient spell rooted in Arthurian legend. And Riley—who forgets to pay bills andbuy groceries!—is sworn to keep her safe from those who want to use her to eliminate the seven-day world and allwho live there.Jax tries to protect Evangeline, but with his new friend’s life on the line, as well as the threat of human destruction,he is faced with an impossible choice: trigger a real apocalypse or sacrifice Evangeline.WITH A WHOLE EXTRA DAY TO FIGURE THINGS OUT, IT COULDN’T BE TOOHARD . . . RIGHT?