For Rip, every dollar is a lifeline. His mother's rare disease might be terminal, and the experimental treatment she needs costs more than he's ever dreamed of. So when a morning bus ride with his best friend Emily turns violent—thanks to Braben, a volatile classmate with a hair-temper and a vendetta—Rip thinks this might be the worst day of his life. Until the bus crashes into a reality where time fractures, he finds unimaginable power at his fingertips, and strangers offer "help"...