Robin Vernal and the Brownleaf Spring — Dominic Jericho

This is an enthralling novel about hope and reclaimed childhood set amid a blistering spring in the lower-sixth. When Danny Canterbury begins his first year in the new sixth-form at St Plunket's he encounters new student Cherry Trove who has transferred from a school across town. Immediately entranced by the alluring Cherry, he begins to plan how he can make his move to reach her inner circle. When a global search gets underway for a missing child, it stirs dark memories for Danny and he realizes that his present adolescent dramas are nothing compared to the lost childhood innocence stolen from him when he was five years old. Memories of his childhood friend Robin Vernal's disappearance come flooding back and he cannot escape the feeling there is more hidden in his past than he has admitted. Cherry partners with Danny to help him get closer to the truth over her vanishing. However as hope begins to reawaken, rejection looms. Can Danny summon the courage to uncover what really happened to his childhood companion?Robin Vernal and the Brownleaf Spring uncovers a dark truth that hides behind Danny Canterbury's pain. In this arresting third installment of Dominic Jericho's coming-of-age saga, hope and despair intermingle until they face each other in a final confrontation, where all bets are off.