Outcast

For six years, "angels" have dropped out of the sky above Riley Carver's town in the deep south and carried people off. Riley is sixteen, tired of living in fear, and out of patience. When one of the creatures comes after her in her own backyard, she takes her mother's shotgun and fires.

The creature does not stay a creature. Where it fell lies a young man, alive, breathing and completely naked. Riley drags him into the tool shed and ties him up, because angels are known for tricks. She intends to question him about why they keep coming and how to bring back Chris, her best friend and almost boyfriend, who was taken a year earlier.

The prisoner has no answers. He is as confused as she is, and he believes the year is 1956.

This is a supernatural young adult novel with a darkly funny streak, narrated through a heroine with an odd sense of humor and very good aim.

Romance and trust grow between Riley and the greaser from another decade, and a group of misfits gathers around them with a single goal: to fight the angels. The tone is spooky but quick-witted, with the eerie small-town setting never far from the jokes.