Victoria, a teenager with the unique ability to make inanimate objects come to life temporarily, has moved to a new town, where she begins high school hoping to join the popular crowd. Unfortunately, making friends is difficult for someone so different from others, especially when she is keeping a secret about her seemingly normal home life.

A lifelong resident of Orange, Connecticut, E. A. Rappaport graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He coined the term Interlocking Matrix to describe his fantasy/adventure series, Legends of the Four Races, a set of nine interconnected books forming six distinct trilogies. The second book in the series, Forging Paradise, received the Silver medal in the Science Fiction and Fantasy category of Foreword Magazine’s 2008 Book of the Year Awards. Faux Life is his tenth novel.