LOVE AND DEATH FOR THE WHITE MOUNTAIN SCOUTS

Emma O’Donnell navigates first love and the shock of a recent diagnosis while leading a group of scouts out of the wilderness after their Scoutmaster mysteriously disappears on a camping trip.

Eighteen-year-old Emma was the first and only girl to sign up for Troop 59 when the Scouts went co-ed. It took the boys years to accept her, but she’s earned their respect. Their camping trip to the White Mountains will be the first trip she leads. Thanks to her recent diagnosis, it might be her last.

If only they didn’t have to hike with Troop 12 of Bloomfield Academy. Private school kids? Emma expects they’ll show up with expensive gear and a snobby attitude. Which they do—but they also show up with their own girl, the talented Snowden, and Quinn, the most gorgeous boy she’s ever seen.

When Troop 59’s beloved Scoutmaster goes missing, the scouts suspect their assistant scoutmaster has done something truly awful. Hungry, suspicious, and with injuries piling up, conditions deteriorate. Friendships old and new are put to the test.

Emma, running away from her own problems, must dig deep and find the strength to prove she’s the same girl she was before her diagnosis, and lead the scouts the one place she doesn’t want to go—home.

William Lodge can’t save you

Sixteen-year-old Annie Lodge has always been jealous of her older brother William. He’s a strange kid, but he’s also a local celebrity in Salem. People pay good money for his spiritual advice at The Summoner, the Lodge family’s historic witchcraft store.

When Annie finds Will comatose in the Episcopal Church cemetery on a cold New England morning, she’s shocked. The police are no help, so she starts asking questions. In Will’s bedroom, Annie finds a list of six teens who shared a dark secret with him:

  • John, the charming best friend.

  • Melodie, the queen bee girlfriend.

  • Tyler, the police cadet.

  • Rosa, the lovesick romantic.

  • Roger, the baseball player.

  • Griffin, the former bully.

Each has a story and a theory about what happened to Will.

 Quiet Annie has always been conflicted about the way her family makes a living. But to get Will’s friends to confide in her, Annie must decide if she’s willing to pull on Will’s black clothes, pick up his Oracle cards, and pretend to embrace his way of life…or risk never learning what happened to her brother and the truth about Salem.