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Eleven-year-old Sam Brattle is having the most miserable Christmas of his life, and most of the rest of his town of Nickel Bay is having a bad one, too: Nickel Bay Nick, the Good Samaritan that distributes hundred dollar bills each Christmas, has been a no-show.

It's summer in rural Maine; when 17-year-old Darcy Prentiss isn't raking berries with her sister during the day, she's drinking and swimming with the boys in the quarry at night.

Kalyn, living under a pseudonym, and Gus, who has cerebral palsy, get caught in an uproar in Samsboro, Kentucky as the truth about the brutal murder of Gus's father by Kalyn's comes to light.

"Frances Stenzel was just trying to prove her scientific worth to her parents so they would take her with them to their scientific symposiums for once--instead, she reawakened her great-grandfather's secret and most terrible invention.

"Growing up in the small town of Winston, Pennsylvania, feels like drowning.