"Before the Tree of Life, everything in Abra Miller's life had been predictable. Safe. Normal. But after the Tree everything has felt fragile ... like holding a soap bubble in the palm of her hand. Now sixteen, Abra find a clue to the whereabouts of the next Tree of Life when an ominous woman-- who looks exactly like a ghost from her past-- compels her to travel to New Orleans where she'll find one of seven gateways between this world and Over There. But she's not the only one interested in finding the gateway, and as Abra enters the Edge of Over There, she doesn't know whome to fear or whom to trust"--Page 4 of cover.