Leave No Trace

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Title: Leave No Trace
Series: Standalones, The Green Place
Published by: Caezik/Arc Manor
Release Date: August 19, 2025
Pages: 390
ISBN13: 978-1647101619
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Sometimes, the bear chooses you.
Seventeen-year-old Lexi has been living in a remote stretch of the Rocky Mountain woods since her father dragged her there ten years ago, after her mother and baby brother were afflicted with a magical sickness. Her paranoid father thinks they've escaped the magic, and that as long as they never leave the woods, they'll be safe.
So Lexi never tells him about her friend Gil, who turns up sometimes in a birch copse that travels with him, and who is definitely not human. She especially doesn't mention the magic he taught her, which can open a path to wherever she needs to go. After all, she's been in the woods for most of her life: she can find her way without magic.
But when pop star TJ Furey hires them to help him hunt down a bear, Lexi's secret is threatened. The bear he wants to kill is under Gil's protection, and if Lexi doesn't prevent its death, she'll never see Gil again. But she can't do so without risking her father's wrath – and when it turns out that TJ's manager is harboring a similar grudge of his own, Lexi feels trapped. If she wants her own life, she'll have to find a way to break all their expectations.
Leave No Trace plays the clash of worlds – magic and technology, future and past, rural and urban – against the backdrop of a bear hunt.
Note: This is a standalone book that has loose connections to The Only Song Worth Singing, but can be read entirely separate from that book or any future Green Place books.
"The story is propulsive, engaging, and just plain old good. It's always a treat to read Randee's work!" — Zin E. Rocklyn, author of Flowers for the Sea
"Randee deftly weaves together Celtic lore and modern conspiracy theories, along with a healthy dose of modern pop music and the people left in a hit song's wake, to explore a near future where nothing is as it seems. As soon as you think you know where the story is heading, Dawn veers off course and leaves the reader stranded in the woods, literally and figuratively. A must-read." — Jennifer Allis Provost, author of The Poison Garden series