She will protect those she loves with every bit of her strong will and tough attitude. Although Mo hopes someday to find her “upstream mother,” she’s found a home with the Colonel-a café owner with a forgotten past of his own-and Miss Lana, the fabulous café hostess. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven years ago, and she’s been making waves ever since. Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, where everyone’s business is fair game and no secret is sacred. If that is the case, then Miranda has a big problem-because the notes tell her that someone is going to die, and she might be too late to stop it. It would be easy to ignore the strange messages, except that whoever is leaving them has an uncanny ability to predict the future.