Overdrive, by Dawn Ius, deals with the importance of family and the effects of loss, while taking the reader on a wild ride through the Las Vegas underworld of auto theft.  Jules is “The Ghost,” a seventeen-year-old lost in the Foster Care System.  She boosts cars to sell to make extra money to help give her little sister Ems a better life.  The Ghost lets her looser boyfriend talk her into a jacking that doesn’t feel quite right and it lands her in police custody.  The only way she can stay out of jail and not be separated from Ems is to accept the offer of a mysterious benefactor, Roger, and join three other teens at his palatial home as his “family.”  The situation in which Jules finds herself is a bit fantastic, but the characters are believable.  The language, while rough, fits the situation and the characters.  It is a good romance story, and the romance is not restricted to person to person.  There is also the romance between people and cars, people and thrills, and people and their memories.  The story is well written and fast paced.  It deals sensitively with loss and how different people cope in different ways.  Overdrive features a blistering pace, numerous clever plot twists, characters that surprise with unexpected behaviors, muscle cars to boost, and a surprise ending.  Recommended.