Rich and bittersweet, this dazzling first novel rings with the radiant story of two honorable young men meeting under unusual circumstances in 1903 and committing their lives to one another. The teenagers flee by train from Virginia to North Carolina and become amateur sleuths working in perfect tandem as they analyze clues--including a cryptic blood-written message within a terrifying mausoleum--or wrestle with murderers and kidnappers. Their goodness and fresh young voices capture the hearts of everyone in their circle, yet they live in constant danger that the same people they freely rescue and befriend might discover their great secret and destroy their cherished new world.