First published 2018
Eva Sandeski calls herself Necco on the streets of Burntown, the shadowy underworld that exists beneath Ashford, Vermont's college town facade. Years ago, flood waters claimed her father Miles and left Eva and her mother Lily without a home. Now Eva moves through the abandoned mills and factories, living among the outcasts who gather in the shadows of towering steel bridges. A dangerous man known as Snake Eyes hunts her through these ruins. Eva must depend on Burntown's other misfits to stay alive as this predator closes in. The killer who destroyed her family years before has returned to finish what the flood started. As the lives of Burntown's outsiders cross paths, Eva discovers that survival means confronting the violence that shattered her world.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Ashford, Burntown, Vermont
Period: present-day
340 pages · Paperback · Anchor
Content warnings: violence