Betty was at the mall with her mom and sister when the shooting started. They weren’t physically harmed, but what they went through left its mark on each of them: her lively sister withdrew into herself, and her mother became so absorbed in the fight to tighten gun control that Betty almost stopped seeing her. Desperate searches for answers to the questions tormenting her lead Betty to Michael—the shooter’s brother. If she becomes his friend, maybe she’ll learn to recognize warning signs, maybe she’ll prevent tragedy—and then she’ll finally feel safe. But the simple answers she craves don’t exist. And this path shows her that her ideas about herself and the world can change in a single moment.