BLUE RIDGE CALLING
In the ancient, rolling hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, lifelong best friends Kora and Sage are plunged into a world of folklore and mystery when Sage’s brother Sam disappears looking for ghosts, forcing them to retrace his steps through haunted locales and strange forests to find him — before it’s too late.
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“A heartfelt, lightly magical exploration of loss, friendship, and the end of childhood.”
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“The Appalachian mountains are some of the oldest in the world. They say ancient magic runs through these rivers and valleys.”
Two years ago, a car accident on a perilous mountain road sent a family into freefall, and none of them have been the same since.
Sage used to have everything under control: perfect grades, record times on the swim team, and carefully medicated ADHD. But ever since her mom died, she’s just been going through the motions, and no one in her family seems to notice.
Kora has known Sage’s family her whole life, so losing Sage’s mom was like losing her own. At the end of the summer, she’s supposed to abandon her beloved Blue Ridge mountains for a prestigious art school in New York, but leaving now feels wrong. And an unexpected romance with a new girl in town might complicate things.
Then there’s Sam, Sage’s older brother. He’s spent the last two years traipsing through the mountains, trying to find evidence of local ghost stories. He said he would be back by now, but no one has heard from him.
To find him, Kora and Sage will have to dig deeper into the myths and legends of the mountains they call home — before it’s too late.
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Kora Mason
“With finals, graduation, and the bonfire done, Kora’s summer stretched before her. Soon she would be leaving for a college that was far away in a big city, abandoning the sweeping valleys and high altitude air that had raised her. Her beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains and all their sweet, earthy memories flooded her.”
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Sage Rivera
“She didn’t believe in the world of ghosts and spirits that Sam did, but she could feel him out there. Science has disproved twin telepathy and other types of psychological connections between siblings, but Sage had known the night her mom died that something was wrong. She knew she would feel it if Sam were gone. Her brother was out in the Appalachian wilds somewhere, waiting for her to find him.”
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Sam Rivera
“Sam looked up at the stars through the treetops. Usually, he could tell which direction he was going from the sky. The sun, the moon, the stars. He had spent so much time in these woods–sometimes he could just close his eyes and feel which way to go.
But now, he was lost.”
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Character art by Chris Froot.