Summary

Torey’s mom tells him Bo told the chief he knew about his affair with Mrs. McDermott, and he’d already told the chief’s daughter Renee. Chief Bowen beat him up, but then resigned. Mrs. Adams thinks Bo will never be charged in connection with Chris’s disappearance, because she’s pretty sure Chris is a survivor—skills he had to learn to deal with his mom and with his classmates—and no body will be found.

Torey is not so sure. He has a nightmare-filled night, seeing visions of Chris dead in the Lenape burial ground behind Torey’s house. Ali says the only way to get rid of those feelings is to go there and see that there is nothing to worry about. They go together.

They go to the central area of the burial ground, a region of white sand and...