The heroine finds a new friend, Lela, when her parents set up business at the Rainforest Café. Lela shows Nerissa about the forest. She shows her how she lives inside a big, carved out cedar tree. She wears moss for clothes and leads a simple life. Lela acts very nice, but why does she not have any relatives? Why does no one seem to live in the forest besides her? What is this strange potion that she is brewing in her pot? And why does she have hair with a greenish tint that is almost the consistency of the moss itself?
Nerissa is about to find out when she looks in a pond and sees that her hair and her skin now look like that, too. Is it the strange weather in the rain forest, or is it something else?
Originally published by Cora Verlag in Germany, now Harper Collins Germany, this young adult supernatural or horror novel is brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked the story, try The Surfer and Pool Party, also by Linda Cargill.