Every Missing Piece, Hardcover

Maddy Gaines sees danger everywhere she looks: at the bus stop, around the roller rink, in the woods, and (especially) by the ocean. When Maddy meets a mysterious boy setting booby traps in the North Carolina woods, she suspects the worst.
Maddy is certain she's found Billy Holcomb-the boy who went missing in the fall. Except, maybe it's not him. It's been six months since he disappeared. And who will believe her anyway? Definitely not her mom or her stepdad . . . or the chief of police.
As Maddy tries to uncover the truth about Billy Holcomb, ghosts from her own past surface, her best friend starts to slip away, and Maddy's world tilts once again. Can she put the pieces of her life back together, even if some of them are lost forever?

Melanie Conklin grew up in North Carolina and worked as a product designer for ten years before she began to write. Counting Thyme is her debut middle grade novel. Her second novel for young readers, All the Missing Pieces, publishes with Disney-Hyperion in 2020. When she's not writing, Melanie spends her time doodling and dreaming up new ways to be creative. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and sons.