Just a Matter of Time

If time is money, someone is robbing Sadie Lin blind.Lately, Sadie can't seem to hold on to a single minute. She misses appointments, loses track of entire evenings, and watches helplessly as her grades, music, and carefully planned future begin slipping away.Then Gordon Bakersfield—the boy behind her most humiliating ninth-grade crush—offers an impossible explanation: someone is stealing her time.That someone is Maya Milansky, Sadie's former best friend and fiercest academic rival. But Maya isn't the only time thief at school. Gordon has secrets of his own, and helping Sadie may not be the only reason he wants to keep her close.To reclaim her life, Sadie must learn to control a power she barely understands. Because time can be stolen. It can be hoarded. And perhaps, in the right hands, it can be given away.A clever young adult paranormal short story about ambition, betrayal, first love, and taking back what belongs to you.