When fifteen-year-old Mick Nichols opens the wrong e-mail, he learns a terrible secret:

His stepmother, affectionate stepmother is having an affair with a man named Alexander Selkirk. Mick is stunned. Should he tell his father, confront his stepmother, or keep it all to himself? And who, exactly, is Alexander Selkirk?

Mick becomes obsessed with his stepmother's infidelity, in spite of some serious distractions. Distractions like Lisa Doyle, the religious field hockey player with the coppery red hair. Like the surprising (but appreciated) affections of Myra Vidal, a famously gorgeous college freshman with a secret of her own. Like the strange robberies at the Village Greens, where Mick works. And as he seeks out Selkirk’s true identity, Mick realizes that all his problems are zipped up together—and that he may have to go to drastic lengths to untangle them.