The Wishing Well

When wishes start coming true at an abandoned estate's mysterious well, sixteen-year-old Penny Parker can't leave well enough alone. The Marborough mansion has sat empty for years, its stone well supposedly cursed but now delivering on every heartfelt request from neighborhood kids. Yet Penny's sharper than the average wish-maker: she notices the property's owner secretly digging around the grounds, a neighbor suddenly eager to buy the land, and real treasure lurking beneath the surface. What begins as a lighthearted high school adventure with Penny and her friends taking Rhoda, a lonely classmate, under their wing, becomes a genuine mystery. Wirt crafts a world where kindness rewrites fate, where including the outsider matters as much as solving the puzzle, and where an old estate holds secrets worth fighting for. The wishing well doesn't just grant wishes; it reveals what people truly value.