Dull Hearts

What really hides behind those menacing oaks and elms?

It's the very question that seeps into seventeen-year-old Elonie Davis' mind after a regrettable decision leaves her father with no other choice but to pluck her from the comfort zone of the city and ship her upstate to the cozy little village town of Aylesbury, New York. She is quickly sucked into the drama at her new high school and, despite avid warnings against playing with fire, she decides to get up close and personal with the most dangerous flame of them all: Jean Cohen.

Meanwhile, it's been a year since the death of her older brother and seventeen-year-old Brynn Walsh is still tortured by the memories of the events that took place the night of his accident. Her life was never truly picture perfect, but now it's completely insufferable. The only person keeping her afloat is Jean Cohen...or so it seems. It isn't until Jean's curiosity leads him astray that Brynn is finally able to come face to face with the skeletons of her past. With some unexpected help along the way, she connects the dots that begin to brighten her path.

But will she discover all that she needs to know before the darkness that still threatens this sleepy little town claims victory over all that she loves in the end?