Owlsby in Autumn

FALL INTO AUTUMN, a town of the ambiguously human, where the wind is a breath of woodsmoke and apples, where the neighbors all gossip in tongues, and where fear is the only thing that keeps your soul from falling like so many dead leaves. Evin Owlsby is the only child of the richest and most prominent family in the strange, secluded town of Autumn. But his parents didn't earn their status by being nice--Evin's mom is shrewd and unforgiving; his dad, cold and unapproachable--and Evin's biggest fear is that he'll grow up to be just like them. When he meets The Phantom Lady Nightly, Evin makes a Faustian deal to save the ghost of a talking pirate toucan in exchange for his sense of fear. And now he suddenly has the courage to run away from all his troubles at home. But as he traipses through the town, brushing shoulders with the meanest of goblins and ghouls, he comes to realize that a lack of fear brings about its own kind of trouble--the kind one doesn't always walk away from. Evin must rely on logic and wit to find his way back home and keep from becoming the next addition to The Phantom Lady Nightly's menagerie of ghosts. Includes exclusive bonus story, the second installment of The Dreal Series: "The Dreal and the Goldscale Serpent."