The truth Avril seeks is ready to be discovered. La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide. And Avril keeps meeting herself-and her dead mother-late at night, at the edge of the ocean. 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. Echoes of long-past moments bounce off the marsh. Distances seem to shift in the strange fog. Now, at seventeen, she’s returning to Whisper Cove for the first time, and she might finally unravel the mystery of what really happened.Īs Avril becomes more involved with camp director Willa and her mysterious son Cole, Whisper Cove reveals itself to her. She’s spent the past twelve years trying to make sense of the strange bits and pieces she does remember from the night she lost her mother.

While Avril doesn’t believe in ghosts, she knows there are lots of different ways for places, and people, to be haunted. Because, as they say at Whisper Cove, what the sea wants, the sea will have. She has a degree in theatre and has spent most of her career teaching acting and directing plays and musicals. Although she comes from a long line of writers, her first love has always been the theatre. Local legend claims that the women in the waves-ghosts from old whaling stories-called her mother into the ocean with their whispering. Ginny Myers Sain is the author of DARK AND SHALLOW LIES (2021) and SECRETS SO DEEP (2022), both from Razorbill Books/Penguin Teen. The museum is where Myers Sain works as a guest experience associate. It was a fitting location for the Tulsa author’s Magic City Books event. It was ruled an accident, but Avril’s never been totally convinced. On a late summer evening in September, Ginny Myers Sain celebrated the launch of her highly anticipated novel Dark and Shallow Lies with friends and fans at Philbrook Museum of Art. Twelve years ago, Avril’s mother drowned at Whisper Cove theater, just off the rocky Connecticut coastline.

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