The Chalk Canoe: A Cat McCloud Book

A Cat McCloud Book. A coming-of-age thriller like never before. Magical realism meets suburban gothic humor in the lakeside town of White Rock. Fish heads are nailed to the trees, a killer lurks under the muck, and the bare lips of one girl must never touch the bare lips of another. But oddball Cat McCloud falls in love with the new girl and is sucked into a maelstrom of witchcraft, time-travel, and adolescent passion.Dee-dee Morton, the new girl, breaks rules, concocts magic, and owns an ancient mummy. Cat is smitten. Coaxed by spellbinding Dee-dee, Cat ventures to the far edges of White Rock, finding cracks in the middle-class perfection and wildness on the far side of Little Rose Lake. Rusty barbed wire rises from the sand, a poison pen stuffs mailboxes with venom, and ancient yellowed letters of love and murder emerge from the spidery cracks, exposing the town's bloody past.The Ouija board warns, STOP MEDDLING IN WHAT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. But Cat and Dee-dee dive deeper into risk