At Chenoa Lake, a small tourist town on the edge of a large lake in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, Jesse Miller and Max Hunter, both 12, form a deep but unlikely friendship in this new mystery series geared toward middle schoolers. Jesse has leukemia, but no real friends until adventurous M... (more)

When Max becomes the foster child of an elderly woman who grows and makes foods and crafts from lavender, Jessie, still recovering from her bone marrow transplant, not only helps with the business, she also investigates who is trying to shut it down.

Max and Jessie get involved in a new adventure involving a trio of recently-orphaned children, who set up camp on nearby Ghost Island trying to escape deportation back to Mexico. In the meantime, a series of burglaries in town has police concerned that a gang of professional thieves is involved.