Grades 9-12. Life is hard for Avery, a transgender teen boy living in a town where a large fundamentalist congregation resides. When his once best friend and first love, Mary—the preacher’s daughter—is found brutally slain, Avery is driven to find her killer. However, the few chilling clues doled out by the murderer point to Avery as the reason behind this monstrous crime, and his life is endangered. Flanked by his girlfriend, Beth, and friend Charlie, Avery doesn’t feel alone as the murderer taunts him with texts and knowledge of things he or she shouldn’t know… [Read More]
When Loose Ends Meet 