Mark Lance, a former labor reporter who graduated from Boston College in 1971, has published his first book, The Weber House (2022). It’s a young adult mystery that tells the story of Nicole who has moved into a house on Maine’s seacoast that locals say is haunted. She and her new friend “team up to search for a legendary treasure. They apply math and science lessons in centuries-old tunnels and on the Atlantic Ocean. But this is no game. Someone else, armed not with theorems but rather an assassin’s knife, is also searching, and watching their every move. The girls think they are hunters. In fact, they are the prey.” Lance teaches math in a GED program in New York City. He said he wrote The Weber House as gift for his daughter. He is currently working on a historical novel about the year 1877.