"Five days ago, a massive UFO crashed in the Midwest, killing thousands of people. Since then, nothing--or no one--has come out. If it were up to Alice, she'd be watching all of this on the news from Miami, Florida. Instead, she's the newest student at a boarding school not far from the crash site--because her dad is the director of special projects for NASA, and if anything is a special project, it's this"--Dust jacket.