In an insular small town steeped in Norse traditions, a teen's developing romance with a newcomer becomes fraught as dark secrets from the past rise to the surface in this gorgeously atmospheric mystery by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline West.
Lucia Sorenson holds on hard to the things she loves. Her tiny hometown clings to the bluffs above the Mississippi River, threatened by weather and time. Unlike most people her age, Lucia plans to stay after graduation and help her grandfather run the Viking Museum of Black Point. Maybe then she can keep everything her ancestors built from washing away.
When the Black Point Hotel, a supposedly haunted local landmark, is bought by an outsider, the town is shaken-and for Lucia, fresh changes arrive in the form of the owner's nephew, Max. As Lucia gets to know Max, she begins to question her role in the town's rituals and to see the place, and herself, with new eyes.
But the town is flooding, and old secrets are rising to the surface. Soon Lucia will have to choose between the home she thought she knew and the hideous truths hidden underneath. Jacqueline West is the author of New York Times bestselling The Books of Elsewhere, the Schneider Family Honor Book The Collectors, and Long Lost, winner of the 2022 Minnesota Book Award for Middle Grade Literature. Her other books include Dreamers Often Lie, Last Things, and Black Point.
