A teen with an unusual gift is enmeshed in a small-town mystery. Mary Catherine “Cat” Montgomery is spending her summer in exile after a disastrous incident with her closest friend, Lacey, leaves her isolated and humiliated. The 17-year-old New Yorker will stay with her Aunt Jet in Montgomery Falls, a tiny Canadian town where her family once owned a successful mill, while her screenwriter father is in California. Cat hasn’t been here in five years, after she and her childhood best friend, Riley, discovered the dead body of a young woman—as well as Cat’s ability to sense things about others she couldn’t know otherwise just by touching their skin. When Cat arrives in Montgomery Falls, she learns that Riley—whom she hasn’t spoken to since that long-ago summer—is now missing. Cat quickly falls in with Jet’s charismatic 18-year-old boarder, Aidan, and his group of cinephile friends, but when Riley’s disappearance is followed by another teen’s near death, Cat must call upon the psychic skill that has thus far complicated her life. Peacock crafts a multilayered story chock-full of conflicts with family and friends that many teens will relate to and a chilling mystery that will keep readers guessing. Most characters are assumed White. A page-turner of a thriller with a smart, compelling heroine.