Fourteen-year-olds Nick Price and Allison McKeghnie join forces, even though their fathers are on opposing sides of the lumber industry, to solve a mystery which involves arson, telephone threats, theft, vandalism, poisoning, and kidnapping
Marion Woodson has published four previous novels for children, including My Brother's Keeper (Raincoast) and Charlotte's Vow (available from Dundurn), which was selected as Our Choice by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. A former family services association coordinator and college instructor, she now writes full-time and lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia.