Shadow of the Sentinels

Slate Landing, Washington. 1996. Population: depends who's doing the counting.

There's one road in, a ferry to Canada at the dock, and a row of black peaks above the lake that the locals call the Sentinels. Nothing arrives in this town without being seen.

The Lockes arrive in October. One truck, one U-Haul, five people, forty-five minutes to unload - they've got it down to a science, because they've done it in six states. They're Romani. The town will figure that out soon enough, and then it'll decide what to do about it.

Corvin Locke is sixteen, the youngest, and he's been the new kid so many times it's basically a trade. He knows how to read a school in a day, how to smile at people who are deciding what he is, and how to take a hit without giving anyone the noise. His oldest brother made sure of that last one. Family is complicated.

But this town is different. This time there's a reason to stay - and Corvin's about to learn what his family has never once had to learn:

What it costs to stand your ground.