An immediate New York Times and Indie bestseller!
From the author of the Truly Devious series, Maureen Johnson, comes a new standalone YA novel set on an island where a teenage girl uncovers a mystery while working as a guide, needing to solve it before history repeats itself. Now available in paperback.
The fire wasn't caused by Marlowe Wexler. Dates should be hot, but not so hot that they require literal firefighters. Akilah, the girl Marlowe has loved for years, will never go on another date with her. No one dates a line-of-duty arsonist.
With her career in house care in smoke, it seems the universe owes Marlowe a new summer job, and so she ends up at Morning House, a mansion built on an island in the 1920s and abandoned shortly thereafter. It's quite easy to give tours. Low fire risk. High likelihood of boredom talking about stained glass, walnuts, and Prohibition.
Oh, and the deaths. Did someone mention deaths?
Perhaps this job isn't such a gift after all. Morning House has a terrible secret buried here for decades, and now the person who brought her here has vanished.
It only takes one element to trigger a disastrous chain of events. A small detail, like a spark, could ignite everything—unless someone buries Marlowe first.
* Chicago Public Library Best Teen Fiction 2024 * Horn Book Fanfare 2024 Booklist * Edgar Award Nominee *
* Pages: 384, Dimensions: 13.5x13.5cm *
