The Serpent King meets Stranger Things in
Emily Henry's gripping novel about a group of friends in a
small town who find themselves dealing with unexpected
powers after a cosmic event.
Almost everyone in
the small town of Splendor, Ohio, was affected when the
local steel mill exploded. If you weren't a casualty of the
accident yourself, chances are a loved one was. That's the
case for seventeen-year-old Franny, who, five years after
the explosion, still has to stand by and do nothing as her
brother lies in a coma.
In the wake of the tragedy,
Franny found solace in a group of friends whose experiences
mirrored her own. The group calls themselves The Ordinary,
and they spend their free time investigating local ghost
stories and legends, filming their exploits for their small
following of YouTube fans. It's silly, it's fun, and it
keeps them from dwelling on the sadness that surrounds
them.
Until one evening, when the strange and
dangerous thing they film isn't fiction—it's a bright
light, something massive hurtling toward them from the sky.
And when it crashes and the teens go to
investigate…everything changes.