The main character feels remorse about the death of her mother, but I never did figure out what exactly happened. She takes an obsessive interest in a burn victim from nearby forest fires. He turns out to be a teen with mental illness. I’m not sure that I understood or believed her compulsion to save him. She suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome and feels a like a bit of an outcast. The plot twists in the end as they are trying to figure out the identity of this boy, who has amnesia. There are many references to Dante and I don’t know if that works for the age group. I think I studied that in university.