This book is about the story of a girl called Winnie, Winnie Foster who had lived all her 14 years in "Treegrap", it wasn't a normal town because some people lived in there until they died, but the Tucks had lived in there Forever, because they are immortals, their life is everlasting, but their secret was almost discovered because a man with a yellow suit was following Jessie and Miles long time ago and one day he meted Winnie, she was catching fireflies and he asked her for help to find the Tuck's family but neither she or her father knew about them.
Winnie was an unhappy girl because she was very lonely, her only friend was a Toad, and one day she told the Toad she was going to escape and she did. She went through the forest with no clue where she was going to end, she stopped on a wellspring and there she saw a boy called "Jessie Tuck" he was very handsome, but the first thing he told Winnie was "Get out of here" but she was lost and was about to drink some of water but suddenly Jessie stopped her, and Miles Tuck, Jessie's older brother, came in the right moment and took Winnie with his father called Tuck. The family, Mae, Jessie, Miles and Tuck were very scared to let Winnie go back to her home because they thought she was going to tell everybody about them and that would cause them to discover their secret. Winnie felt as if she was kidnapped but as time went trough she felt for first time on her life happily, she started falling in love of Jessie, time was happening fast it was just a week for her, but for her anguish family it was a month, so the man in the yellow suit offered his help in exchange for the Foster´s forest, and Winnie´s father agreed. Jessie offered Winnie to drink some of the water so that she could live with him forever, but Tuck made her realize that it was a bad idea, he told her “Don´t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don´t need to live forever, you just need to live”.
Everything was fine until the man in the yellow suit came over the Tuck´s house to take Winnie, but he didn´t came there for that reason, his grandmother knew about the Tuck´s secret and he wanted to make a business out of it, he wanted to sell the everlasting water, he thought it was a good thing, but the Tuck´s knew it was a curse so Mae Tuck took a blade and hit the man with the yellow suit in the head, she had killed him, so the sheriff arrested Mae and sentenced her to death. Winnie was already home, but Jessie came into the window to ask for help, because if Mae was hanged she wasn´t going to die so everyone was going to knew their secret and that was going to be a problem. Winnie went, she helped Jessie and Miles by getting distracted the sheriff to let Mae free and when she did Jessie told her to drink some of the magic water and that one he was going to go back for her, but she didn´t, 80 years later Jessie went back for Winnie but when he found her grave he realized she made the right choice.
Winnie was an unhappy girl because she was very lonely, her only friend was a Toad, and one day she told the Toad she was going to escape and she did. She went through the forest with no clue where she was going to end, she stopped on a wellspring and there she saw a boy called "Jessie Tuck" he was very handsome, but the first thing he told Winnie was "Get out of here" but she was lost and was about to drink some of water but suddenly Jessie stopped her, and Miles Tuck, Jessie's older brother, came in the right moment and took Winnie with his father called Tuck. The family, Mae, Jessie, Miles and Tuck were very scared to let Winnie go back to her home because they thought she was going to tell everybody about them and that would cause them to discover their secret. Winnie felt as if she was kidnapped but as time went trough she felt for first time on her life happily, she started falling in love of Jessie, time was happening fast it was just a week for her, but for her anguish family it was a month, so the man in the yellow suit offered his help in exchange for the Foster´s forest, and Winnie´s father agreed. Jessie offered Winnie to drink some of the water so that she could live with him forever, but Tuck made her realize that it was a bad idea, he told her “Don´t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don´t need to live forever, you just need to live”.
Everything was fine until the man in the yellow suit came over the Tuck´s house to take Winnie, but he didn´t came there for that reason, his grandmother knew about the Tuck´s secret and he wanted to make a business out of it, he wanted to sell the everlasting water, he thought it was a good thing, but the Tuck´s knew it was a curse so Mae Tuck took a blade and hit the man with the yellow suit in the head, she had killed him, so the sheriff arrested Mae and sentenced her to death. Winnie was already home, but Jessie came into the window to ask for help, because if Mae was hanged she wasn´t going to die so everyone was going to knew their secret and that was going to be a problem. Winnie went, she helped Jessie and Miles by getting distracted the sheriff to let Mae free and when she did Jessie told her to drink some of the magic water and that one he was going to go back for her, but she didn´t, 80 years later Jessie went back for Winnie but when he found her grave he realized she made the right choice.