Several people and things are returning to Lily Arkansas the back roads, dead end town where Cullen Witter lives. His father, a long-haul trucker is back from delivering oil well equipment to Harrison. The Lazarus woodpecker has been spotted in the woods after having gone missing for nearly 60 years. And Alma Ember has returned from Georgia having failed out of college and running from her psychotic husband. All things returned but one has disappeared, Gabriel Witter. Collin's younger brother literally disappeared in the night at the beginning of the summer without a trace. No one, not the police, the psychic, or the neighbors know what has become of him. Now Cullen must accept that his brother may be gone forever. A Michael L Printz winner and William C. Morris Debut Award winner.