Black Point

Novinka

In an insular small town steeped in Norse traditions, a local teen grapples with dark secrets from the past rising to the surface in this spine-tingling thrill ride (School Library Journal, starred review) by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline West.Lucia Sorenson holds on hard to the things she loves. Her tiny hometown clings to the bluffs above the Mississippi River, threatened by weather and time. Unlike most people her age, Lucia plans to stay after graduation and help her grandfather run the Viking Museum of Black Point. Maybe then she can keep everything her ancestors built from washing away. When the Black Point Hotel, a supposedly haunted local landmark, is bought by an outsider, the town is shakenand for Lucia, fresh changes arrive in the form of the owners nephew, Max. As Lucia gets to know Max, she begins to question her role in the towns rituals and to see the place, and herself, with new eyes. But the town is flooding, and old secrets are rising to the surface. Soon Lucia will have to choose between the home she thought she knew and the hideous truths hidden underneath.