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(ages 13 - 17) The picturesque Raven's mountain lodge has been in Ronnie's family for generations, allowing Ronnie and her sister to grow up surrounded by nature. But with fewer and fewer tourists coming to the lodge each summer, their father is forced to look for investors, and is killed in an accident on a business trip. The situation leaves Ronnie's mother with no choice but to sell the lodge t... More

(ages 13 - 17) The picturesque Raven's mountain lodge has been in Ronnie's family for generations, allowing Ronnie and her sister to grow up surrounded by nature. But with fewer and fewer tourists coming to the lodge each summer, their father is forced to look for investors, and is killed in an accident on a business trip. The situation leaves Ronnie's mother with no choice but to sell the lodge to Louis Moss, a man Ronnie blames when her idyllic life is turned upside down.

Uprooted from their home in the mountains, the family struggles to get by in a dingy apartment, where Ronnie's fragile mother quickly succumbs to depression and alcoholism. The one bright spot in Ronnie's life is Lee, an outsider like herself, who turns out to be a fugitive activist, wanted for a campus bombing. Ronnie offers Lee safe haven at her family's former lodge, but a chance meeting with Louis Moss at the Raven's ends in disaster. The lodge burns to the ground, with Moss inside. Ronnie is the police's only suspect, and is coerced into a confession. The dramatic court case unfolds, with some portraying Ronnie as a monster who killed a generous man that had stepped in to take care of her family, and others seeing her as a minor whose rights were violated by the detectives that interrogated her. In the end, Ronnie herself is unsure of her complete guilt or innocence, in this intense novel in which everyone has something to hide.

This riveting novel is set in 1969. The complex plot and carefully drawn characters deal with loss, depression, poverty, family dysfunction, teen relationships, guilt vs. innocence, and other compelling issues.

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