Logan's family barbecues are legendary. Along with their friends, Logan and his brother, Josh, are having the summer of a lifetime. Life is a grand adventure, filled with swimming and the occasional BB gun war. The arrival of Baxter and his two malicious stepsons throw the warm days of nineteen sixty-eight into chaos. Suddenly the inconceivable occurs. Like all boys they like to keep their inner world to themselves, but this terrible event cannot be a young boy's secret. The entire town is paralyzed. Logan knows something that no one else in Fossil knows. He knows the truth. Drawing on the courage that they never knew they had, Logan and Josh face the impossible.