You've Reached Margo

Ivy works a crisis line and has answered a great many calls. One evening a young woman named Margo phones in, and something in her voice does not fit what Ivy has been trained to hear. Margo does not sound like someone who wants to die. She sounds afraid of someone or something.

A few hours later, Margo has died.

Ivy makes the drive to Hickory's End, the small town where Margo grew up, hoping to learn what had scared her. Margo had clearly uncovered something there, and the people who ask about it tend to come to harm.

Ivy has no standing in Hickory's End and no authority to make anyone answer her. She is an outsider from start to finish, working in a town that has already settled on how Margo died. The book follows her as she questions that verdict alone, and the question is whether she can learn what Margo found before the town closes ranks around it.