Product Description
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 Rory Power.\
La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide.\
This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World—and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey's best friend, disappeared six months earlier.\
Grey can't believe that Elora vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. But as she digs into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something—her grandmother Honey; her childhood crush Hart; and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to call to Grey from beyond the grave.\
When a mysterious stranger emerges from the bayou—a stormy-eyed boy with links to Elora and the town's bloody history—Grey realizes that La Cachette's past is far more present and dangerous than she'd ever understood. Suddenly, she doesn't know who she can trust. In a town where secrets lurk just below the surface, and where a murderer is on the loose, nobody can be presumed innocent—and La Cachette's dark and shallow lies may just rip the town apart.
From School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up-A debut novel that will draw readers into a darkly atmospheric mystery set in the bayous of Louisiana. Seventeen-year-old Grey spends every summer in La Cachette, Psychic Capital of the World, where everyone has a gift ranging from prophetic insight to bilocation. With her chestnut hair and green eyes, Grey doesn't match her longtime companions in La Cachette-the Summer Children who were born in the same six-month stretch-and yet all of them are like her siblings. Grey usually relishes her time on the bayou but this summer is different because Elora, her twin flame born on the same day and hour, has gone missing under menacing circumstances. Now La Cachette is torn apart by old and new rifts, and nobody is safe from the coming storm. Sain's supernatural thriller is deeply absorbing with its swampy atmosphere and vivid characters that surface one by one to engage teens deeper into Grey's mystery. The eccentric psychics and looming atmosphere of La Cachette lend this book a creepy edge that readers of supernatural mysteries will no doubt appreciate. VERDICT Recommended for readers of paranormal mystery-especially those who are drawn to atmospheric settings and well-developed characters.-Talea Anderson, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WAα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Review
* “Dreamy prose conjures a mythical Southern Gothic atmosphere, mixing violence with a Byronic characterization of Elora’s stepbrother Hart. Taut pacing builds sustained terror on the page with each successive suspect in this formidable debut.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review\
“Murky waters, hidden gators, and nasty cottonmouths match the setting to its darkly unsettling story….Fans of Brenna Yovanoff’s
Fiendish or Natalie C. Parker’s
Beware the Wild will find this atmospheric thriller deeply satisfying.”
–BCCB \
"A darkly atmospheric mystery set in the bayous of Louisiana."
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School Library Journal\
“Haunting and arresting, this is one stunning debut. Ginny Myers Sain has written a totally engrossing small-town mystery about what happens when you finally dig up long-buried secrets.”
—Jessica Goodman, New York Times bestselling author of
They'll Never Catch Us\
“Don’t even try to resist—Ginny Myers Sain will lure you into the spellbinding world of the deep Louisiana bayou with this riveting missing girl mystery populated by a bewitching cast of characters; spun to life in lush, atmospheric prose; and teeming with a dark m

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  • Mysteries & Thrillers
    • Mystery & Detective