The Girl in the Lightning

Introverted by nature, seventeen-year-old Riley McCann has always felt more comfortable behind a camera than in front of it. Fueled by her love of photography and the incessant encouragement from her best friend, Macie, Riley decides to take a chance and enter a contest to potentially have her work featured in a national magazine. However, when fate steps in and brings Riley face-to-face with tragedy, it sets off a chain of events that threaten to upend not only the lives of her friends and family at the boarding house where Macie lives, but also those of everyone in the communityGrieving a horrific personal loss, Riley and the others are put on a collision course with a mysterious girl named Light. Upon her arrival at the boarding house, Light and those with her challenge Riley and the others to face their own grief, their thoughts on life, faith, loss, and miracles—and in doing so, confronting everything they ever thought they knew to be true...