Two teenagersā lives intersect in a desolate town where nothing is as it seems The town of Glory is famous for two things: businesses that front for seedy, if not illegal, enterprises and the suicides that happen along the Indigo River. Marsden is desperate to escape the ābed-and-breakfastā where her mother works as a prostituteāand where her own fate has been decidedāand she wants to give her little sister a better life. But escape means money, which leads Mars to skimming the bodies that show up along the Indigo River. Itās there that she runs into Jude, who has secrets of his own and whose brotherās suicide may be linked to Marsās own sordid family history. As they grow closer, the two unearth secrets that could allow them to move forward . . . or chain them to the Indigo forever.