Hard Magic

Fourteen year-old Jude Corgan is haunted by his brother's death and shamed by a legacy of poverty and junk heaps. Not to mention the sixteen wrecks that have appeared mysteriously on the Corgan property in the five years since his brother died. They are a mystery Jude must unravel to discover what happened on the night of his brother's crash and lift the curse that hangs over the Corgans' lives. An explosion in the night; blue frosting at a crime scene; and a boy with a strange tattoo who seems to know too much--they are somehow all connected to Jude and the trouble brewing in the mountain town of Twin Gaps, Vermont. Aided by his best friend, Merrilee Rainey, Jude's search for answers leads him to stunning revelations and a powerful magic that can change the world and the fortunes of those who possess it.