Summer Island Gothic As the locals of Beartown

As the locals of Beartown struggle to overcome the past

a prince turned training partner

Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

Things are still tense between the ex-friends but Tiwa needs Said’s help if there’s any hope of changing the mayor’s mind

And as her abilities to feel pain and emotion begin to grow and strengthen

Summer Island Gothic As the locals of BeartownSummer Island: Thirty four year old Ruby Bridge is a not too successful comedienne who uses her mother, a nationally syndicated "moral and spiritual counselor" as the main fodder for her cynical, rather bitter humor. Her mother Nora, long divorced from Ruby's father, is a woman whose past is just about to catch up with her in the form of blackmail by a former lover. After an accident (an attempted suicide?) Ruby returns to care for her stricken mother