Before Takeoff

Before Takeoff tells the story of two teens who meet and fall in love during a layover-gone-wrong at the Atlanta airport. This thrilling new novel from the author of Let's Get Lost is a captivating read.

James and Michelle find themselves stuck in the Atlanta airport during their layover. Despite their differences, interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light—and to each other.

Where James is passive, Michelle is anything but. She quickly discovers that the flashing green light is actually a button, which she presses. This action may, or may not, unwittingly break the rules of the universe—at least as far as Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is concerned.

Before they can figure out what's happening, bizarre and impossible events begin: snowstorms form inside the B terminal, jungles sprout up in the C terminal, and earthquakes split the ground in between. No matter how hard they try, it seems no one can find a way in or out of the airport.

James and Michelle team up to find their families and either escape the airport or put an end to its chaos—before it's too late.