trudy chun

Alone.

When his mother is deployed to the Middle East with the US Army, Marc Gomez finds himself alone in Central Europe. Abandoned in a "Hungarian hellhole of a boarding school," his only friends are a small assortment of cross-cultural misfits with whom he has nothing in common--except the English language.

When things couldn't get any worse, Marc's roommate commits suicide, at least that's what the police say. But Marc's odd group of friends see something else. Can you see what they see? And will their unique ability to pick up on clues prove more costly than anyone imagined?