An adventurous debut novel that cuts between a harrowing experience in the rocky mountains and a difficult recovery. Avery Delacorte loves the water. A sophomore on her university's nationally ranked swim team, she finally feels popular and accepted - especially by Lee, her kind and outgoing boyfriend. But everything changes when Avery's flight home for Thanksgiving makes a ditch landing in a mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies. There are only five survivors. Yet when Avery emerges from her ordeal alive, she must face the realization that rescue doesn't mean survival.