Drew Dark and The Fortune Teller's Secret

Wolf Creek, Alabama, 1961. Thirteen-year-old Drew Dark moves into the old house on Parson's Hill the same week his father becomes sheriff. Drew is small, quiet, and better at noticing things than doing things-an ability nobody rewards, but one that becomes dangerous fast.The attic in their new home is locked from the outside, the keyhole jammed with a broken nail. His father tells him to leave it alone. Drew doesn't. What he finds behind that door sets off a chain of events he can't explain, not even to the man who's supposed to keep the county safe.When the traveling carnival arrives for the Fall Festival, a fortune teller predicts-publicly-that the town banker will sit in her chair Saturday morning and never rise from it. She's right. And Bellamy County decides, quietly and collectively, what story they're going to tell about it.Sheriff Dark refuses to play along. He's nine weeks into the job, surrounded by deputies he can't trust, and a town that wants him to stop asking questions. Because the truth isn't in the carnival tent, and it isn't in 1961.It's twenty-seven years earlier-an October night the county agreed to call an accident, even though the people who were there have been carrying the real story ever since.Following the trail will cost Drew nearly everything he loves about Wolf Creek. His great-aunt understood that when she left him a house with a locked door he'd never be able to ignore.A Southern mystery about a killing, a town's convenient memory, and the few people who've been telling the truth for twenty-seven years to no one willing to listen.