Jade DeLuna has Panic Disorder. Her anxiety attacks can be set off by the slightest change in routine, life can become quite hard to handle. Her sanctuary is her room, where she burns saint candles to ward off misfortune and watches the elephants at the zoo via live web cam. All is Ok until she sees the boy in the red jacket who comes to see the elephants almost everyday with a baby. Jade becomes fascinated with the boy, and decides to meet him. In the process she ends up working at the zoo with the elephants and both Jade and the reader learn about these amazing animals. Sebastian, the boy in the red jacket, a single teen father who lives on a houseboat with his activist grandmother, complicates Jade's life with mystery and unanswered questions... but with him she feels safer than ever. And then she learns his secret. Will she do the right thing, or what feels like the right thing?
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