Romance, friendship, and dark, bone-chilling fear fill the pages of this summertime thriller in the spirit of <i>Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children</i>.<br><br>Twelve years ago Stella and Jeanie vanished while picking strawberries. Stella returned minutes later, with no memory of what happened. Jeanie was never seen or heard from again.<br><br>Now Stella is seventeen, and she's over it. She's the lucky one who survived, and sure, the case is still cloaked in mystery - and it's her small town's ugly legacy - but Stella is focused on the coming summer. She's got a great best friend, a hookup with an irresistibly crooked smile, and two months of beach days stretching out before her.<br><br>Then along comes a corpse, a little girl who washes up in an ancient cemetery after a mudslide, and who has red hair just like Jeanie did. Suddenly memories of that haunting day begin to return, and when Stella discovers that other red-headed girls have gone missing as well, she begins to suspect that something sinister is at work.<br><br>And before the summer ends, Stella will learn the hard way that if you hunt for monsters, you will find them.
