Dragonfly Girl: A Spellbinding YA Science Thriller About a Cure for Death and Deadly International Rivalry

In this spellbinding thriller and YA debut from bestselling author Marti Leimbach, Kira Adams has discovered a cure for death—and it may just cost her life. Now available in paperback.

Things aren’t going well for Kira. At home, she cares for her mother and fends off debt collectors. At school, she’s awkward and shy. Plus, she may flunk out if she doesn’t stop obsessing about science, her passion and the one thing she’s good at . . . very good at.

When she wins a prestigious science contest she draws the attention of the celebrated professor Dr. Gregory Munn (as well as his handsome assistant), leading to a part-time job in a top-secret laboratory.

The job is mostly cleaning floors and equipment, but one night, while running her own experiment, she revives a lab rat that has died in her care.

One minute it is dead, the next it is not.

Suddenly she’s the remarkable wunderkind, the girl who can bring back the dead. Everything is going her way. But it turns out that science can be a dangerous business, and Kira is swept up into a world of international rivalry with dark forces that threaten her life.

She thought reviving a rat was the hard part. But what happens when her discovery can’t be contained?

• A Cure for Death: Kira brought a lab rat back from the dead. But her breakthrough isn’t just a science project—it’s a discovery that could change the world, or end hers.
• High-Stakes Science: From a prestigious science competition to a top-secret lab, Kira is plunged into a world where research is a weapon and her mentors may be her most dangerous enemies.
• An Unlikely Heroine: Socially awkward, brilliant, and in way over her head, Kira Adams is the teen genius who must outsmart global forces to protect her discovery... and her own life.
• International Thriller: When her experiment attracts the wrong kind of attention, Kira becomes a pawn in a dangerous game where corporations and dark forces will kill to control her secret.

Marti Leimbach is a fiction writer and a core tutor at Oxford University’s creative writing program; she is best known for her international bestseller, Dying Young, which was made into a major motion picture. She is also the author of The Man from Saigon and Daniel Isn’t Talking, among other novels. Dragonfly Girl is her first YA novel. www.martileimbach.com