The Story of a Little Girl, a Ghost Cat, and a Teleporting Dog
Nine-year-old Nomy has moved to a new town, where she lives with her mother and grandparents in the last house in a crumbling ghost town. As she familiarizes herself with her new surroundings, she hikes every day with her dog through deep forests and farm fields, encountering wild animals and a mysterious mist that seeps among the trees. As her school year starts, she makes new friends but also gains a pair of bullies who pester and bother her, making her life worse and worse. When the bullies kill a local farmer’s goat, it puts Nomy in a bind, having to decide between revealing the truth or saving her dog, whose life is in danger from the bullies. As her life is made more and more miserable, she is forced to take action, relying on the mythical ghost cat to save her, her dog, and everyone close to her.