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Dark and Shallow Lies

by Ginny Myers Sain

Secrets beneath the bayou

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Secrets beneath the bayou

In La Cachette, Louisiana, a town known for its psychics, Grey is still searching for answers about her best friend Elora’s disappearance six months earlier. Her investigation draws her toward secrets held by people close to her, including family members, and toward the town’s violent past. A mysterious boy emerging from the bayou connects Elora’s case to that history, while a murderer remains at large. The supernatural mystery links a missing-person investigation with questions of trust, family secrets, and how the past continues to shape a small community.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in supernatural thrillers.
  • Readers who enjoy small-town mysteries involving a missing friend and hidden secrets.
  • Readers drawn to bayou settings and stories involving psychic abilities.

Themes

Secrets and trustFriendship and disappearanceFamily historySupernatural mysterySmall-town life

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Book overview

"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

A New York Times bestseller!

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 supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and E. Lockhart.


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.
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