Young Broadbrim on the Border

A teenage detective with nothing to prove — except everything.

Young Broadbrim knows how to read a city before it reads him. He's cracked cases that stumped hardened men twice his age, and he carries that quiet confidence like a weapon.

But the Soo is different.

Straddling the border between the United States and Canada, Sault Sainte Marie is a lawless seam in the map — where smugglers slip between two countries in the dark, customs officers scramble uselessly along empty riverbanks, and a flood of roughneck lumbermen with fresh pay in their pockets threatens to tear the town apart at the seams.

Young Broadbrim arrives with his sharp-tongued partner Dandy Dick at his side and his instincts already humming. The train ride alone nearly cost them everything — a thief disguised as a sick passenger, a desperate sprint along a moving train, and a bite wound that still throbs beneath the bandage.

And that was before they even reached the border.

Now, with hundreds of miles of river to patrol and a gang of smugglers clever enough to stay invisible to every officer who's tried, Young Broadbrim steps into the hunt. He's outnumbered, out-resourced, and operating in country he doesn't know.

He wouldn't have it any other way.

Can one young detective crack a smuggling ring that an entire government has failed to stop — before the border swallows him whole?