When Fred takes stepsons Max and Charles to Elliott Island for a day of crabbing, none of them are expecting to encounter anything out of the ordinary. But all bets are off when you drive out that long narrow road to the End of the World.

An old woman gives them a giant snapping turtle to sell, and their day gets weird. And when they stumble across the same woman's gravestone--with her death date inscribed, but hidden in the ground--their trip becomes stranger still.

As every answer leads to more questions, what starts as a "Boys' Day Out" becomes an adventure that will not soon be forgotten.

Susan Yaruta-Young is a pastor whose family roots in Maryland date to the 17th century. Before moving to the coast of Maine with her husband, Luther Young, and their family, she worked as a Maryland State Arts Council Poet in the Schools.