A Novel by Dan Armstrong
Stella Walters-Smith is a senior in high school and lives on a dairy farm in western Oregon with her adoptive parents. By something more than chance, she discovers she shares consciousness with a being from another planet. Already socially isolated living on a farm and wary of being too different from other students, she keeps this secret to herself and finds joy in the lush forests around the farm, communing with the plants and the animals and the fungi.
To Stella's surprise, another high school senior, Travis Hardy, asks her out on her a date, her first. And then another. As their chemistry begins to percolate, Stella worries that telling Travis her secret will ruin their friendship, while not telling him will severely limit it.
When a fellow student's father goes missing, Travis asks Stella to join him in the search for his friend's father. In the process of unraveling what becomes an eerie backwoods mystery, they get to know each other in ways neither could have anticipated.
Cover art by Richard Quigley.
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