With his psychotic father having betrayed him, silver-tongued Skinny is thrown into hiding. Even though the entire town is out to find him, Skinny focuses his attention on the only person he can trust, Zophia. But when a mysterious man exposes a link to Zophia's past, the two new friends must work together and survive the onslaught brought on them, by not only Guy Skinford, but also a now half-faced Kovak.—Nik Kacevski