National Network for Equitable Library Service

It’s been almost a year since Charlotte Romer set foot in her hometown of River John, Nova Scotia. She’s been living at a boarding school hours away, hiding from the trauma and broken relationships she left behind. All she has left in the small town is her older brother, Sean, who is struggling to keep the lights on in their run-down family home. Charlotte hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Sophie, since she fled. It’s not exactly a celebratory homecoming. On her first night back home, Charlotte shows up unannounced to Sophie’s eighteenth birthday party, and the trickle-down effects of that decision haunt Charlotte for weeks. But then Charlotte reconnects with Sophie’s ex-boyfriend, Max, and the two of them begin to slowly unravel what happened the night of the accident the summer before—the night that changed everything. Somebody knows something, and that somebody really doesn’t want Charlotte and Max to figure it out.