Hardcover |384 pages

The Power meets Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone in this darkly funny debut, in which a woman suddenly develops the ability to see how long people have to liveand discovers she can also take years of life from one person and bestow them to another.

Thea has a secret. She can tell how long someone has left to live just by touching them. Not only that, but she can transfer life from one person to anothersomething she finds out the hard way when her best friend, Ruth, suffers a fatal head injury on a night out. Desperate to save her, Thea accidentally kills the man responsible and lets his life flow directly into Ruth.

Thea comes to understand that she has a godlike power, but how to use it quickly becomes a question of self-control. Is it really so wrong to take a little life from a bad personsay, a very annoying bossand gift it to someone who’s truly good? Realizing she needs to harness her newfound skills, Thea creates an Ethical Guide to Murder. But as she embarks on her mission to punish the wicked and give the deserving more time, she finds good and bad aren’t as simple as she first thought.

How can she really know who deserves to live and die, and can she figure out her own rules before Ruths borrowed time runs out?