Raising Kane

When 16-year-old Spence Williams goes to live with his grandparents in a small farming town, the last thing he expects to find is a world of fear, grave robbing and murder. Just being a gay teen who is lousy at sports is tough enough. Spence is rapidly becoming the favorite whipping boy of the school bully, and his crush on football captain Pete doesn’t seem to be going anywhere—until a mysterious new boy arrives in town. Mario is a Cuban refugee, and a follower of the occult religion Santeria. He offers to help Spence win over Pete with a magic spell, but Spence soon learns there is a frightening side to his new friend’s culture. Mario’s cruel and dangerous guardian Lorenzo has come to town on a mission: to steal the skull of a notorious serial killer, Wendell Kane, who is buried in the local cemetery, and make the spirit of the killer his slave. As Mario uses magic to try to save Spence from escalating violence from the school bully, and Spence tries to save Mario from the clutches of his brutal uncle, the boys find that there are more kinds of love than they originally imagined, and learn that sometimes you can’t save the person you love most...