A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.

In a struggling Dallas neighborhood, two unlikely allies--Sandra Kaye Darden whose missing adopted son draws her to her Uncle Poppy's home and Cass Blue who is struggling to survive on her own after ditching foster care--realize their ability to make a difference--and the power of what becomes known as the Summer Kitchen to nourish the soul.

Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. She decides to run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.