The Missing: The Curious Cases Of Will Winchester And The Black Cross

The Missing is a novel about a 16-year-old boy named Will Winchester who is recruited by the Spiritualist Black Cross Order of Occult Occurrences to help keep the peace between the living and the dead. The novel follows Will as he tries to uncover the secrets of the ghosts who have gone missing from history.

It is 1890, and London has secrets. For sixteen-year-old Will Winchester, born Willow Winchester and raised as a young man, the safety of his own secrets rests one atop the other. Hiding his gender queerness is important. But so is hiding the ghostly voices of the Missing,which Will hears when no one else can ... until the Spiritualist Black Cross Order of Occult Occurrences wants him in their service to keep peace between London's living and dead.

The freedom to be himself may come with a price. Working alongside a patchwork team of misfits and unlikely allies, Will finds he isn't the only one keeping secrets. Someone does not want him to uncover the truth about the ghosts who aren't just missing from the world of the living, but missing from history itself. Can he find the Missing before he ends up becoming one of them?