An Edgar Award Winner Two years after his father\'s mysterious disappearance, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely. "Don\'t you want to know who he.
Moody, provocative, she\'s the bad-girl stepdaughter of Father Fisher, Jim\'s father\'s childhood friend and the town pastor, and she shocks Jim out of his stupor when she tells him her stepfather is a murderer.
What did happen to his father? Is he dead or just gone? Then Jim meets Ruth Rose.
Underneath, he\'s frozen in uncertainty and grief.
An Edgar Award Winner Two years after his father\'s mysterious disappearance, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely