William Todd

1888. Auggie Rose runs away from the orphanage he had been living at since his parents died six months prior. He is small for his age (16) and is picked on by older and bigger boys. He decides to live out on Presque Isle, a beautiful peninsula on the southern shores of Lake Erie in Pennsylvania. He wants to be a hermit like the local hermit celebrity, Joe Root, who had been calling Presque Isle home for many years. On his journey to the peninsula, Auggie is witness to a murder, though the murderer does not know he was being watched. Auggie tries to put the incident from his mind and makes friends with a kitchen worker, Maisy, who works at a hotel at the foot of the peninsula. She helps out A...