Six cousins are thrown together to spend an overheated summer in Miami Beach. They frolic in the ocean, fly kites on the beach, play tennis, swim and sail and get into trouble--often. One day they spy an ordinary emerald-green beetle. Reality is fractured when they find themselves in a future time but still can smell their grandmother's caramel cookies baking nearby. Where are they? The cousins are tossed into other times, past and future and never know whether they will ever come back to themselves. The beetle warns that life on earth will end but tells them they can help. Will they save their world? Cousins is an amazing read, full of the stuff of nightmares, of angry adults, of fears, of strange and scary alien beings. Cousins is also comradery, a bit of archeology, and fun.