Title: The Secrets We Bury
Author: Stacie Ramey
ISBN: 9781492654209
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Summary:
Seventeen-and-a-half year old Dylan Taggart is on the run. His family is trying to put him in a school for psychologically challenged students. Dylan realizes he’s had some anger issues and he's a complete loner, aside from the friendship of his cousin Emily, who he calls the other pea in his pod. But he knows the Believers Charter School is not the place for him. As the investigators his mother has hired close in on him, he decides the Appalachian Trail, a hike that takes approximately six months––the exact length of time he needs to stay off her radar until his eighteenth birthday––may be the perfect place to hide out until he can legally drop out of school.
Except Dylan needs people more than he'd like to admit. And the biggest surprise is a hiker named Sophie, whom the other hikers call “the ghost.” Dylan finds a bond with Sophie he's never had before with anyone, and slowly they confide the secrets of what they're each running from. Trusting someone is scary, but Dylan is about to find out that sometimes love is more important than keeping promises, and some promises are made to be broken.
Praise for The Secrets We Bury
“A gripping novel that will tug on readers’ heartstrings until the very end.”–Booklist
“A sensitive, funny, and sometimes awkwardly romantic story of survival and self-awareness.”— Kirkus
