<p align="center"> Some friends fade away....Others disappear. <P> Imagine you and your best friend head out West on a cross-country bike trek. <P> Imagine that the two of you get into a fight -- and stop riding together. <P> Imagine you reach Seattle, go back home, start college. <P> Imagine you think your former best friend does too. <P> Imagine he doesn't. <P> Imagine your world shifting.... <P> <I>Shift</i> is a tour de force -- a literary debut that'll knock the wind out of you as it explores the depths of loyalty, the depths of friendship, and the unknowable depths of another person.