Twenty-four-year-old Edward Warren, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: his dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara. With her father's chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father's...

Edward is one of a large and close family that loves baseball, music, books, and each other, and when he unexpectedly dies and his parents donate his organs, his wonderful eyes go to a perfect recipient.

When a heart becomes available for donation, a slew of zealous competitors go to outrageous lengths to claim the organ, from a do-gooding lawyer to a pair of unscrupulous government agents, in a tale that follows a cross-country auto race.

Dylan is sixteen when she first meets her father, who is looking for a donor match for his sick toddler.