Days before Kindermann Forest Summer Camp is set to open, the director discovers his counselors drinking alcohol and skinny-dipping, fires all of them, and must hurry to find replacements before the first wave of campers arrives.

One of those replacements is Wyatt, a young man with a genetic disfigurement; a gentle giant deeply concerned both that others will interpret his physical appearance as indicative of a mental disability, and that it actually is. Surprisingly when the campers arrive they are mentally disabled adults from the state hospital and Wyatt is uneasy that people will mistake him for a camper rather than a counselor. The summer take a vicious chilling twist and is picked up again 15 years later.

The prose is excellent and this book was a fantastic summer read!