Dearest Summer

In 1950, in the small town of Charity, North Carolina, little girls are expected to be courteous. They’re expected to be respectful, responsible. Above all, little girls are expected to be good. But Lacey Marie Sumner isn’t your average 11-year-old girl. In fact, she’s missing something most of her peers take for granted: a conscience. And she does not want to be a big sister. Enter Casper Johnston, a 25-year-old mortician’s apprentice, the youngest of six brothers and a virtual outcast within his own family. He alone can see into the darkness of Lacey’s heart, and also the potential, far in the future, to begin a new family all his own. First, he’ll need to teach her how to be who she truly is, to guide her journey from afar until childhood’s end—and, if possible, learn to control the little tempest the Cabal will come to know only as “Summer.” But Summer, it turns out, does not like to be told what to do. Ever. From an ill-fated Bonfire Girls camp in Goshen, Virginia to the horrors of Serenity Hospital; from a supposedly abandoned lighthouse in South Carolina to a church besieged by phantoms in the woods of upstate New York, Dearest Summer presents all twelve stories from the NoSleep Podcast Summer Series in book form for the very first time.