Skunk Chronicles (Thornton Mysteries)

A hit-and-run pickup truck driver severely injures twelve-year-old Trent Stone and kills his best friend. He is left shattered alone and struggling with the reality of permanent loss. As Trent tries to put his life back together and uncover who was driving the truck that fateful day he is met with an onslaught of ever-mounting problems. He attacks his challenges with the naïve and playful honesty of youth while at the same time experiencing the overwhelming miracle of a first love. When Lindsey the subject of that love disappears Trent is not only implicated in her disappearance but accused of her murder. How can he prove his innocence when she made him promise not to tell what he knows?