Seventeen-year-old Shepherd doesn't believe in stuff he can't explain, like ghosts or life after death. So when he awakens in a strange city, seventy-five years ahead of where he was at breakfast, he's understandably confused. But not alone. His sister's there. So is the family cat. Five minutes into their new future, Shepherd witnesses a murder. He finds a strange marble with a sun-colored shadow. It begins to rain, his sister wants to go home, the cat runs away. Stranger still, the people on the sidewalk don't seem to see him. No one can hear him. Until he meets Tienne. It's not love, but it could be. She's got fabulous blue eyes. At least that's what Shepherd thought right before she fainted. What he doesn't know is that Tienne knows everything about him-even the dark secret he created in a previous life. His secret would explain his situation and a whole lot more, if he could remember it. Which he can't. Tienne wants to help, but she once swore she'd keep his secret-even from him. And she's not the kind of girl to break her word. Deep down, Shepherd knows he's forgotten something major. But he doesn't want to remember; in fact, he does everything in his power not to. Until someone tries to kill Tienne. BEING is a different kind of ghost story about the power of memory, the nature of the universe and just how far one boy will go to ensure the love of his life lasts . . . forever.