Dyan Easton hates her sister, B.J. She gets all the attention in their family and is extremely talented, but she's a complete brat to Dyan. With Dyan's frustrating friends and awkwardness, the beautiful, polite B.J. looks even more special. Then B.J. is kidnapped, and the Easton family receives a note explaining that they have seventeen days to find her. If B.J. is not rescued by midnight of the seventeenth day, she will be killed! Now Dyan has to help find her sister, despite her jealousy, her distraught parents, her strange new feelings about B.J., and her problems in school. But there's something about the kidnapping that doesn't seem right to Dyan... something that makes her think this is no ordinary crime. . .