Nereid

Nereid is Part Tw?o of the Tess Trilogy of the Sourwood Mountain Series by Jenni Lorraine and should only be read after reading the Best-Selling first installment Tailypo.The weeks that have followed since the discovery of young Ruby Milton's body in Pichol Creek have been a whirlwind of strange activity and mounting suspicions in the small town of Adelaide Virginia with eleven-year-old Tessie and friends caught in the center.Since she was old enough to read she's done nothing but absorb information about monster lore from across the globe-becoming convinced that folk monsters live in abundance in the woods surrounding her tiny home town.It was a monster-hunting excursion that led the group of young explorers to find the skeletal remains of Ruby a former girlfriend of Tessie's uncle Joel laid to waste in Pichol Creek after Tessie's trusted dog Job retrieved the skull. Now a dark shadow has been cast over the town of Adelaide as Sheriff Alan Cline races against time to solve the caseconvinced it's somehow linked to a series of disappearances shady characters and secrets that have long been rotting away at the heart of the local community.In a case where nothing appears as it seems only one thing can be known for certain: ?The true beasts of Adelaide are about to be revealed.