Nothing to Lose

I shouldn''t have come back to Miami . . . I''ve been escaping cops'' notice for a year now. I''m no longer Michael Daye, high school athlete with a promising future. Now I look like someone whit no future.

When Michael saw a chance to leave town with a traveling carnival a year ago, he took it. Back then, his home life was spinning violently out of control. The carnival, with its "no questions ask...