Chapter 7
The Secret of Aurora Hollow
The honk of an air horn announced Zoe’s return just before noon, and the girls ran to meet the truck they’d watched take Zoe away a few months earlier as it pulled into the church parking lot.
Zoe’s father, tall and muscular with hair almost as long as Zoe’s, stepped down from the cab and stretched his spine. He surveyed the town around him, pausing for a moment to watch a couple of boys at the river fishing, then saw Penny, Katie, and Ellen running his way. Zoe’s mother appeared next, stepping down from the high cab more slowly and cautiously. She was a small, brown-haired woman, almost comically mismatched when she stood next to her husband. Zoe exited last, and though she had been meeting them in secret almost every night for the past month, Penn
