Taut pacing builds sustained terror on the page with each successive suspect in this formidable debut.
Infused with Creole and Cajun legends and language, Myers Sain’s dreamy prose conjures a mythical Southern Gothic atmosphere, mixing violence with a Byronic characterization of Elora’s stepbrother Hart. With a hurricane barreling toward La Cachette, Grey’s investigation into Elora’s disappearance soon turns deadly. La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide. When a mysterious blue-eyed stranger begins asking questions about the twins’ suspected killer, Grey’s latent psychic abilities activate-but though she experiences flashes through Elora’s eyes, she cannot decode them, or understand why the other Summer Children want her to leave. A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling debut supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and Gillian Flynn. Though many suspect Dempsey Fontenot, believed to have killed four-year-old twins and Summer Children Ember and Orli years ago, others think a rougarou, or werewolf, is to blame. One of 10 Summer Children born in one year, most assumed white, Grey is determined to uncover what happened to best friend and fellow Summer Child Elora, who’s been missing for several months. Green-eyed Grey, 17, returns every summer to La Cachette, La., the “Psychic Capital of the World,” to help run her grandmother’s spiritualist bookstore.
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