The God of Make Believe

Finley stands above the freshly dug grave of his best friend and for the first time in his young life can find nothing to laugh about. High school was over and Huck was gone, his cause of death a mysterious accident.

Then the day gets worse. A shadow rises from the grave, a darkness washes over him, and when Finley wakes up he is no longer on Earth.

Finley is on Poa, a world that seems like it was designed by a kid, where ghosts can see inside your head and moving statues serve your every whim. But even this cheerful world has murders. Convinced that finding the killer behind a series of murders in the magical city of Oshroar will reveal the truth behind Huck’s death, Finley sets out to crack the case. His only partner is a sentient truth-detecting flower, which presents quite a problem for a boy like Finley, who hides his true feelings behind a veil of sarcasm and lies.

As Finley and his other trapped friends try to survive unending storms, giant statues, and sinister postal systems they discover that this world was created by none other than Huck himself. It is his childhood land of make believe and it is desperate for new heroes to complete its story. As Finley continues his investigation and his friends struggle to reunite, the hapless detective discovers the dark secret Huck hid at the heart of his world, the secret that might have killed him.