The year is 1995 in the small religious town of Wesley Falls, where six high school students, Maddy, Kelly, James, Casey, Padma and Jia, are thrown together to work on a summer project and witness a crime in the abandoned mines, and then commit one themselves. They make a pact to never talk about it and go their own way. Now 20 years later one of them, Maddy, is back in town after her parents were killed, and she starts asking questions, and is soon found dead. When Jia is back in town to help solve the mystery, she has a psychic power and can see things, and then she sees the Pastor at the church, a man who should be dead, she calls the others, who come back to town, they start asking questions, and decide they need to find out the truth of what’s really going on, and end things once and for all. It becomes a battle of good against evil. A great psychological thriller, with well-written characters, a story that fills in all the gaps, with then and now, told by different characters. This is one you will want to keep reading. A great follow-up to Never Saw Me Coming, which I recommend.
You can pick up A Step Past Darkness in stores on Tuesday, February 20th from Park Row.
