For eleven-year-old Tash, Capn Jackie isnt just the elderly next-door neighbor - shes family. When she disappears, only Tash holds the key that might bring her back.Tash didnt want to go to camp, didnt want to spend the summer with a bunch of strangers, didnt want to be separated from the only two people she has ever been able to count on: her uncle Kevin, who saved her from foster care, and Capn Jackie, who lives next door. Camp turns out to be pretty fun, actually, but when Tash returns home, Capn Jackie is gone. And Tash needs her - the made-up stories of dolphin-dragons, the warm cookies that made everything all right after a fight, the key Capn Jackie always insisted had magic in it. The Captain always said all Tash had to do was hold it tight and the magic would come. Was it true? Could the key bring Capn Jackie back? In a heartfelt and stunningly written story, Pat Schmatz introduces readers to a tenacious, fiercely loyal girl struggling to let go of the fantasies and fears of her childhood . . . and say yes to everything that lies ahead.