Midnight Rain — James Newman

Kyle Mackey has a secret place where he goes to be alone--it's a run-down shack deep in the woods outside his small town of Midnight, North Carolina. But Kyle's private spot will never seem the same to him after he looks in through one of the shack's dusty windows and sees a naked girl lying there . . . broken and bleeding. The girl has been brutally beaten, but she's still clinging to life. What Kyle sees next, though, is the part that will haunt him the rest of his life. Soon he will be the only witness to an unspeakable murder. There's no one he can trust to see that justice is done. But the murderer isn't finished, and the only hope of stopping him is in the hands of a small, frightened boy. . . .