Stay Dead

Sixteen-year-old Milan is having trouble coping with the sudden death of her father, a senator, in a car accident. She keeps getting in trouble at school and now that her mother has been elected to the senate seat vacated by her husband, Milan feels like her mother has little time or attention for her. After she joins her mother on the family's small plane after being expelled, a bomb disables the plane and it crashes into the freezing, snow-covered mountains. It is there that Milan discovers that her father's death and the plane crash were not accidents, and it's up to her to travel down the mountain to take the key her mother entrusts to her. That key, she hopes, will help her to uncover the truth about an slow-seeping environmental disaster involving a fracking company. Unfortunately, there are only a couple of adults she may be able to trust, and she's not even sure she can completely trust them. Part survival story, part mystery, and part ecological exposé, Stay Dead is a gripping page-turner from highly acclaimed author April Henry!