Orion in the Sunshine

... most of the photographs of their beloved older son and brother were never put back up. The anguish and confusion contained in the frames were too heavy for them to lift,

too burdensome for any nail to hold-and in any case, they didn't need pictures to remind them of Riggs. He was never, ever gone from their thoughts.

In this fast-paced sequel to The Alphabet Woods, Key North and her new charge, seven-year-old Wain Banfield, have moved into a rental home in Troy, North Carolina while Key's beloved Pike House undergoes much-needed renovations. Wain has started second grade. Everyone is adjusting well, and life is settling down ...

... That is, until one afternoon when Key hears the heartbreaking story of a young man named Riggs who vanished without a trace twenty years before. Astonished that she hadn't heard the story, she feels a deep sympathy for the young man's family and an urge to see what she can unravel. Key impulsively dives in ... and finds herself in the middle of more than one secret.