Dragonfly Girl by Marti Leimbach

Dragonfly Girl by Marti Leimbach

In this spellbinding thriller and YA debut from bestselling author Marti Leimbach, Kira Adams has discovered a cure for death--and it may just cost her life.

Things aren't going well for Kira. At home, she cares for her mother and fends off debt collectors. At school, she's awkward and shy. Plus, she may flunk out if she doesn't stop obsessing about science, her passion and the one thing she's good at . . . very good at.

When she wins a prestigious science contest she draws the attention of the celebrated professor Dr. Gregory Munn (as well as his handsome assistant), leading to a part-time job in a top-secret laboratory. 

The job is mostly cleaning floors and equipment, but one night, while running her own experiment, she revives a lab rat that has died in her care. 

One minute it is dead, the next it is not.

Suddenly she's the remarkable wunderkind, the girl who can bring back the dead. Everything is going her way. But it turns out that science can be a dangerous business, and Kira is swept up into a world of international rivalry with dark forces that threaten her life. 

• A Groundbreaking Discovery: Kira Adams revives a dead lab rat in a secret experiment, uncovering a potential cure for death that could change the world--or end hers.
• A Top-Secret Laboratory: A prestigious science award lands Kira a job cleaning floors in a mysterious lab, but she soon discovers she's surrounded by world-altering research and dangerous secrets.
• An Unlikely Heroine: Shy, awkward, and broke, Kira is more comfortable with test tubes than people. Now, she holds the key to a scientific revolution, making her an international target.
• High-Stakes Rivalries: When her discovery makes her a wunderkind, Kira is thrust into a dangerous game of scientific intrigue, where powerful forces will do anything to control her research.

Marti Leimbach is a fiction writer and a core tutor at Oxford University's creative writing program; she is best known for her international bestseller, Dying Young, which was made into a major motion picture. She is also the author of The Man from Saigon and Daniel Isn't Talking, among other novels. Dragonfly Girl is her first YA novel. www.martileimbach.com