Keeper of the Kite

An angel is telling this story -- and he knows how it ends.

High above the flat, sunbaked plains of West Texas, a heavenly Raconteur named Antyl watches over the people he loves most: Leon, a boy the orphanage never wanted anyone to adopt, and Will, a boy raised in the shadow of a secret and dangerous invention called NOFLAK. Their paths -- one running toward freedom, one running toward purpose -- are being woven together by a hand neither of them can see.

When a mysterious buyer purchases al...