If you can’t trust your parents, who can you trust?

With no idea who’s after them, or why, the twins race to discover the truth about their parents. And, in the process, they learn a lot about themselves – and the unbreakable bond they share.
Readers will be obsessed with finding out what happens next in this highly suspenseful coming-of-age story with a deadly twist.

This highly engaging who-done-it involves almost nonstop chase scenes as we follow 15-year-old identical twins Lewis and Cameron from Canada to Edinburgh, Scotland. They’re on the run from a harrowing incident that tore them from their parents, who have gone into hiding either because they’re on the wrong side of the law (something the boys aren’t initially willing to believe) or involved in some kind of undercover work.

In any case, the goal is to follow clues that will help them reunite with their mother and father, and in the process, determine what lives they led before they left Scotland in a hurry more than a decade before.

The boys soon realize they’re being followed – but by people who mean them harm, want to locate their parents or are perhaps protecting the twins? Either way, they can’t seem to trust anyone, even those whom their parents had assured them would help. And when they devise a plan to dodge pursuers by hiding the fact they’re twins (they take turns hiding out and venturing out so there’s only ever one to be seen), it inevitably leads to trouble, awkwardness and narrow escapes, including in the romance sphere.

Several colorful, local teens join in their escapades, which ramps up action and tension. The twins may look alike, but their personalities and agendas differ, including the fact that one is straight and one is gay (or is he?) and one is smoother socially while another is better at math. It all adds to twists and turns in the plot, and ups and downs in their own relationship, until a fight prompts one to flee into the night.

People would see me for me, rather than half of a pair…
I checked the contents of my pockets – Ethan Martin’s passport, a ten-pound note, Clare’s keys and a dog biscuit. Not enough for a taxi, even if I could find one, never mind a flight home.

And that leads to a harrowing kidnapping and subsequent rescue attempt.

The chase scenes immerse readers in Scottish history on the fly, including the kids’ attempt to navigate a labyrinth of dungeon tunnels beneath a castle. The mystery of who is following them and why make the entire read a nail-biter. Teen dialogue is authentic and offers the welcome relief of a little humor, whereas the full cast of diverse characters is well developed.

– Pam Withers