If you’ve been around the blog a while, you know I love a good YA mystery by Leslea Wahl. Today I’m happy to tell you about her latest, Where You Lead.

Title: Where You Lead

Author: Leslea Wahl

Genre: mystery (with a side of romance)

Age group: young adult

High school junior Eve keeps having visions of a boy she’s never met. All she knows is that his name is Nick, and she thinks she’s supposed to help him. After a while Eve starts having difficulty telling reality from the visions, so she seeks help at school. When neither the nurse or the counselor offer any helpful suggestions, Eve turns to the elderly priest at her parish. He reminds her of the story of Samuel, who kept hearing a voice calling for him in the night, but when he ran to the priest Eli, Eli said that he had not called him. Finally, Eli tells Samuel that if he hears the voice again to say, “Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.”

Eve realizes she needs to pray about what these visions might mean. She decides to ask God for help and promises to go wherever God leads her (hence, the title of the book). When she learns that her dad has been offered a job at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., (right after she’s had a vision of Nick in D.C.), she decides to convince her dad to take the job and move the family from New Mexico to D.C.

Once there, she finds Nick, who turns out to be the son of a newly elected senator. Nick had been the one to convince his dad to run for office, so now both Nick and Eve feel like they are on a mission from God (cue the Blues Brothers music!). This mission involves stopping a foreign entity from getting his hands on a potential treasure that was buried years ago during the Civil War. Nick and Eve follow the clues to the treasure around historic sites in Washington, D.C.

Woven into this mystery is a little romance (because, of course, Nick is a handsome boy) and lots of fun characters, like Eve’s cranky neighbor in her new apartment building and the rule-breaking teenage daughter of an ambassador.

If you like fun mysteries set in historical sites with a little romance and humor, you definitely need to check out Where You Lead by Leslea Wahl!

Also, check out the giveaway Leslea is doing at www.lesleawahl.com/treasure.

You can also learn more about Leslea Wahl and her other mysteries, The Perfect Blindside and An Unexpected Role, on her website.