The Girl With the Wrong Name

Ever since The Night in Question left her with a hideous scar and no memory of what happened, Theo Lane has been hiding. An aspiring filmmaker, she uses a hidden button cam to keep the world at bay. She spends the entire summer in a Manhattan café, secretly documenting random “subjects.”

Once school starts, Theo finds her best friend has morphed into a flirtatious, short-skirt-clad stranger. Everyone ignores the scar. As if that will make it go away. The café remains her lunchtime refuge.

Her most interesting subject is the Lost Boy, a stranger who comes in every day at the same time. When she finally gets up the courage to talk to him she discovers why: the Lost Boy, Andy, is waiting for someone who said she’d meet him there . . . four days ago. Intoxicated by Andy’s love for this mystery girl, Theo agrees to help him find her, and her unhealthy obsession pulls her into a perilous, mind-bending journey. But is it really Andy’s world she’s investigating? Or is it her own?

Barnabas Miller is an acclaimed ghostwriter, the author of the middle grade caper Rock God: The Legend of B.J. Levine, and co-author of 7 Souls, an Edgar Award nominee for Best Young Adult Novel. The Girl with the Wrong Name marks his solo debut for teen readers. He also composes and produces music for film and television. He lives in New York City with his wife, Heidi; their cat, Ted; and their dog, Zooey.