Fours Crossing

Shortly after her mother's death, thirteen-year-old Melissa goes to live with her grandmother in a small New Hampshire town which is experiencing an odd unending winter.

A stolen silver plate and a mad hermit's plans for revenge on the town of Fours Crossing, which wronged his ancestor, threaten the very survival of the town until Sarah and Jed uncover an important secret

When Melissa Dunn comes to live in Fours Crossing, she doesn't expect adventure, but that's just what she and her friend Jed find. For months, snow has been falling—one blizzard after another—and Jed is suspicious; there's the missing antique silver plate, the dog with the long silky coat the color of gold, the fact that it seems like only Jed and Melissa can see him, and—most frightening—the menacing old hermit who lives in the woods nearby. Finally, Melissa is convinced that only she and Jed can save FOURS CROSSING…But how?