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Exploring the ruins of an old ranger cabin, Wren finds a rusted tin box of journal pages signed only "D.O." and dated the summer of 1987 — the summer a seventeen-year-old trail worker named Del Ostrander vanished during a wildfire evacuation and was never found. The official report says he was swept away in a creek. The evidence Wren uncovers says otherwise.
With help from a local boy named Jonah Vance and Del's elderly sister, Wren starts pulling apart a story the Forest Service closed decades ago — and keeps running into her grandfather's silence at every turn. Something happened on this ridge in 1987, and Silas was there.
When lightning sparks a real wildfire on the very slopes where Del disappeared, old mistakes and new dangers collide. Wren and Silas will have to trust each other with the truth — and with their lives — before the mountain decides the story for them.
A story about grief, guilt, and the kind of truth that has to be carried before it can be set down.
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About the author
Eleanor Voss writes fiction for young readers about the wild places where families come apart and put themselves back together. She is drawn to stories set against real landscapes — forests, coastlines, and the quiet, demanding work of the people who watch over them. Voss spent several years living in small mountain towns before turning to writing full time, and much of her fiction grows out of that time: the rhythms of small communities, the weight of local history, and the particular kind of courage it takes to tell the truth to someone you love. The Lookout Line is her latest novel. She continues to write from the Pacific Northwest, usually within sight of a tree line.
