INVINCIBLE SUMMER

Craig has yet to get over his first boyfriend, an enigmatic and overwhelming personality named Cody who had to be sent to a mental institution after his father was killed in the Pentagon on September 11th. Unable to come to terms with the fact that he couldn't "fix" the person he loved most, Craig begins collecting stray animals to care for, bringing them home by the dozen.

Lio is short for Liam is short for William, and is short for his age. It's because of the chemo, he says. Lio and his twin brother both got leukemia, but only Lio survived it. The tragedy has torn apart his family, and with his mom gone, his dad moved him and his many sisters away from New York, and brought them to Maryland, where Lio meets Craig.

Now, the random killings in the DC area and dredging up the losses both boys experienced during September 11th. Between Craig's inability to not try to "fix" those around him, and Lio's inability to talk about what happened, or really to talk at all, they have a potent, potentially explosive, combo that will either bring them together for life, or destroy what's left of them.

Gone, Gone, Gone is Hannah Moskowitz's third young adult novel with Simon Pulse, scheduled to be released spring 2012.