It was the last good summer. The last summer Isaac was alive. The last summer with Christopher. A night at the park turns ugly when sinks attack. Fast, coordinated, and deadly, the sinks try to capture a child. For Alex, Isaac, and Christopher, there is no question: they have to find out who is raising the sinks. And then they have to stop him. But they find much more than they are looking for. A novella set in the world of The Sophistries of June.

When Asa Alejándro León moves with his family to West Marshall, a small Midwestern town, he’s looking for one thing: oblivion. Haunted by memories of his past, broken by what he has lost, Alex struggles to find a reason to live. And then he discovers that someone in his quiet new world is using magic—the very same kind of magic that Alex lost. With that magic come old responsibilities that Alex is not ready to let go. When the dead begin to rise in West Marshall, and when the people Alex loves start falling inexplicably ill, Alex discovers that—even without magic—he still has a lot to lose. And a lot to fight for.

Mr. Green is dead. Still recovering from his battle with the grower, Alex tries to move forward with his life. But a new danger stalks West Marshall. A monster that Mr. Green mentioned only once before Alex killed him. The eater. As Alex struggles to balance his love for Olivia and his growing attachment to Mike, he must hurry to find the eater that is hunting the people of West Marshall, for the eater has marked Alex’s family for death. Alex has sworn to stop the eater. But first, he has to find it.

The eater is dead. More importantly, Alex is back to being single after his break-up with Olivia. When a friend asks, Alex to babysit, though, he sees something that makes him think all is not right in West Marshall. And as his investigation progresses, Alex discovers a danger he never knew existed.

Months have passed since Alex stopped the monster known as the eater from ravaging the small town of West Marshall. Just when life seems to be settling into something normal, an FBI agent shows up on Alex's doorstep, wanting to know where he was the night Melanie Evans died. As Alex scrambles to cover the trail that connects him to the string of deaths in West Marshall, another quickener arrives in town, and the dead begin to rise. Alex must find this new quickener, and fast—before he and his friends are killed.

The school year is over. It's finally summer. Time for sleeping in, spending time with friends, and forgetting everything from school. Except not for Alex León. At the first party celebrating the end of school, another student is victim of a brutal beating, and Alex suspects magic. As he investigates, though, he realizes that he is not the only one looking for answers. Mercenaries are sweeping Spinner County, searching for something, and new monsters prowl the forests around West Marshall. Meanwhile, inexplicable violence plagues the quiet Midwestern town as neighbors turn on each other. As Alex grows closer to understanding the series of seemingly unprovoked attacks throughout his community, he comes face to a face with an enemy he thought he had destroyed. And when he uncovers a longer history to the tragedies of West Marshall, Alex learns that the price to end the violence is within his reach: the life of an innocent girl. A girl he has promised to protect. The final novel in The Sophistries of June.