Ghosts. Magic. Growing up. Falling in love. Ruby and Jude."She was watched. Being watched. Watched over, and she always had been. Always would be. Ruby Lynne Baxter was a Wells. The living end of a thousand hopes and dreams going back to a first glance of ground. She was that, but she wasn't done. She wasn't finished, and neither were they. She would not be the last, and deep down from within her soul Ruby heard the simple words Lila had whispered in her ear on their first night together. 'You're going to be okay, Ruby. You're going to be okay.' "Just outside the sleepy town of Cale New Mexico sit the remnants of an old pecan orchard. Just up the road is a little house where Ruby Baxter lives with her Aunt Lila. Ruby is a shy girl with a tragic past. Bright and ever hopeful, she's a lonely child. All she's ever really wanted was to have friends and maybe fall in love. Just the other side of the orchard the Hughes family has moved in. Their middle son, Jude, is a good kid, but he has secrets. He's haunted by things he can't explain and doesn't understand. In Cale, magic, ghosts, and the surreal are just a part of life. Whether anyone notices or not. Like the ice that never leaves the trees. Maybe, somewhere in the middle of that orchard, together, Ruby and Jude just might figure it all out."Ruby & Jude is a magical fantasy wrapped in a story about growing up, dealing with loss, and learning to fall in love."
