Firefly Cloak

When 8-year old Tessa Lee and her brother, Travis, are abandoned in a campground by their desperate mother and her boyfriend of the moment, their mother leaves them only two things: a phone number printed in Magic Marker on Travis's back and her favorite housecoat, printed with tiny fireflies, that she places over her sleeping children. The phone number belongs to the children's grandparents, who are notified by the police and come for them. For Tessa Lee the housecoat becomes totemic, a cloak that provides a connection to the past and the beautiful mother she lost.

When word arrives many years later that Tessa Lee's mother has been spotted working at a pavilion on a seaside boardwalk, the teenager sets off on a dangerous and desperate journey to try to recover what it is she has lost.

Steeped in the rich tradition of Southern writers like Carson McCullers and Sue Monk Kidd, The Firefly Cloak is a vivid coming-of-age novel about family, loss, and redemption.