Out of Darkness (Fiction - Young Adult)

*“This is East Texas, and there’s lines. Lines you cross, lines you don’t cross. That clear?”*

New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them.

*“No Negroes, Mexicans, or dogs.”*

They know the people who enforce them.

*“They all decided they’d ride out in their sheets and pay Blue a visit.”*

But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive.

*“More than grief, more than anger, there is a need. Someone to blame. Someone to make pay.”*

Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion—the worst school disaster in American history—as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people.