Magical realism meets Southern Gothic in this commanding young adult debut from Ciera Burch about true love, the meaning of home, and the choices that haunt us. Welcome to Coldwater. Come for the ghosts, stay for the drama. Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey ShoreInstead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother livessomeone she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left Jerickas mother and uncle when they were children. But now Jericka''s grandmother is dying, and her mother has dragged Jericka along to say goodbye. As Jericka attempts to form a connection with a woman she''s never known, and adjusts to life in a town where everything closes before dinner, she meetsghost girlKat, a girl eager to leave Coldwater and more exciting than a person has any right to beBut Coldwater has a few unsettlin