Truthseekers: Welcome to Blackriver, by Rob St. Martin

I started reading Rob St. Martin's Truthseekers: Welcome to Blackriver [Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy]  on the drive back from vacation.  I finished it fairly quickly, and immediately jumped back into revision madness, so it's taken me almost a month to actually post a review.  Bad Jim.

This first Truthseekers volume is a collection of intertwined short stories centering around fifteen-year-old Ashley Bennett.  When Ashley's parents are murdered, she has to leave Toronto and move to the small town o