Overview

For Pina, summer 1959 started off a boring drag, just like every other summer with her folks at Owl Lake Lodge in Maine. The only good thing was seeing Katie and hanging out with her in the creepy cabins of the old boys’ camp. But this summer, Katie seemed different, cuter. Pina didn’t have a clue why. Katie just somehow made her nervous – and excited.

Another thing rattling Pina’s nerves were her dreams; well, not exactly sleep dreams, but awake dreams. All fine and good, but they came from her dead Sicilian grandmother, and they told her things, crazy things, love things, like her and Katie falling in love things. They also showed her dead stuff, dead like a long-time dead from the camp dead.

So the summer heated up. And so did her feelings for Katie. Things got even hotter when Katie’s dad, Doc, and his very, very close, old camp friend, Joe, started hiding camp secrets about dead stuff – and other stuff.

How hot could Pina stand it? If she didn’t want to lose this one chance for a different kind of life, could she solve the murder – and clear Doc’s name? And would Katie have her and would Pina have herself?

About Dolores Maggiore

Dolores Maggiore (1947-) was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. to Italian-American parents. She grew up in Ozone Park, Queens, N.Y., where from the age of three she ventured away from this home on her own. While her first solo mission landed her in a nearby cathedral, her further ventures brought her to great physical and psychic distances from Ozone Park.

In addition to teaching foreign languages and selling antiques, Dolores worked as a psychotherapist with children and couples and published reference books on lesbians and psychotherapy and child custody.

Dolores is a member of the Society of Book Writers and Illustrators, Willamette Writers, and The Golden Crown Literary Society and has won Rainbow Awards for Best YA LGBTQ & Debut Novel. Dolores lives in Portland, OR and Borrego Springs, CA with her wife, Terrie, and Murphy, the rescue poodle, and Xander, the lynx point critic. She enjoys hiking and gardening as well as birding in the rain and the desert.