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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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	From the bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies comes a paranormal thriller about a seventeen-year-old girl returning to camp to uncover the truth of what really happened there twelve years ago, the night her mother drowned.	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.

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* “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."— 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 mythology that is part folklore, part psychic mysticism, and entirely compelling.” —Kit Frick, author of I Killed Zoe Spanos

“Enchanting and chilling at once, you’ll instantly get sucked into this atmospheric tale of kindred spirits brimming with secrets that could tear them apart. Ginny Myers Sain’s haunting, lush, lyrical prose will keep you captivated till the end.” —Diana Urban, author of All Your Twisted Secrets

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Ginny Myers Sain lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has spent the past twenty years working closely with teens as a director and acting instructor in a program designed for high school students seriously intent on pursuing a career in the professional theatre. Having grown up in deeply rural America, she is interested in telling stories about resilient kids who come of age in remote settings. She is also the author of Secrets So Deep. Follow her on Twitter @stageandpage and on Instagram @ginnymyerssain, or find her on her website at ginnymyerssain.com

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The last time I saw my best friend, she called me a pathetic liar and then she punched me in the mouth. The shock of it almost kept me from feeling anything until it was over. And I had no idea what Elora was thinking in that last moment. Because she didn’t say. And I’m not a mind reader.

Honey is. My mother was. I guess. All the women in my family, right up to me.

But not me.

I’m thinking of that night last summer as I stand on the front porch of the Mystic Rose and stare at Elora’s missing poster, trying to catch my breath. I’m wondering why they chose that picture. The one with her eyes half-closed. She hated that picture.

Jesus.

She hates that picture.

I’ve been steeling myself for this moment since I got that phone call back in February. Trying to imagine what it would be like to come home and step off the boat into a La Cachette without Elora. And I knew it would be bad. But I hadn’t been prepared for the poster.

The words MISSING GIRL printed in red caps.

The sheriff’s phone number.

My chest tightens. I drop my backpack to sink down and sit on the front steps so I can pull myself together. Clear my head of that weird flash that hit me out of nowhere.

Elora running from someone.

Being chased through the rain.

Swallowed up by the dark.

A few seconds to shake off that terror. Her terror. That’s all I need. Then surely I’ll be able to breathe again.

The screen door slams, and I hear footsteps on the porch behind me. It’s Evie. “Hey, Grey.” She perches beside me on the steps, like a bird, and offers me half a stick of gum dug out of the pocket of her cutoff shorts. “Miss Roselyn said you was comin’ this mornin’. You just get in?”

La Cachette, Louisiana, is the self-proclaimed “Psychic Capital of the World,” so I always find it odd that every summer visit starts with people firing off questions they should already know the answers to.

How was school dis year?

Still makin’good grades?

Gotcha a boyfriend yet?

“Yeah.” I unwrap Evie’s offering and nod toward the backpack at my feet. “Got off the mail boat a few minutes ago.” The gum’s a little stale, and I wonder how long she’s been carrying it around.

“We didn’t know if you’d come this year . . .” Evie’s voice trails off, and she glances at the curling edges of the MISSING poster. At the picture in the center. Half-closed eyes and a long dark ponytail. That bright blue tank top with the faded yellow stars. And a knock-you-on-your-ass smile.

Elora.

“She’s my best friend,” I say. “My—” But I can’t choke out the words.

“Your twin flame,” Evie finishes for me, and I nod. She settles onto the step and slips her hand into mine. “So you had to come.”

Evie’s gentle sweetness is as familiar as the worn smoothness of the porch step. And the smell of the river. I’m glad she was the first one to find me.

Sweat stings the corners of my eyes, and I pull up the collar of my T-shirt to dab it away. Barely eight thirty in the morning and already a million degrees with 500 percent humidity. I lived down here full-time till I was almost nine years old, so you’d think I’d be used to it, but it always takes me a while to reacclimate after spending the school year up in Arkansas with my dad. I mean, it’s hot there, too . . . but not like this.

Nowhere is hot like this. Or wet like this. Spending the summer in La Cachette is like living inside someone’s mouth for three months out of the year.

I pull my eyes away from Elora’s picture in time to watch the back half of a big black snake disappear into a clump of tall sedge grass beyond the boardwalk. It’s too far away to say for sure if it’s a moccasin. But I figure it probably is. That thick body gives it away. And I know they’re always out there, sliding back and forth beneath our feet like the slow roll of the tides. Every once in a while, one of them finds its way up onto the boardwalk and into someone’s house, where it meets its doom at the business end of a long-handled hoe. Or a shovel.

I don’t like to think about the snake, or where it might be heading, but it’s better than staring at that poster while the words missing girl burn deep into my brain.

“You okay, Grey?” Evie asks. She’s twisting a strand of almost-white-blonde hair around one finger.

“Yeah,” I say. “It’s just weird, you know? Everything’s different—”

“And nothing’s different,” she finishes.

And that’s it exactly.

Evie reaches down to scratch at a bug bite on one bare foot, and I can’t help noticing how long her legs have gotten since last summer. Plus, she’s gotten boobs. She’s finally growing up.

Evie turned sixteen last September, the youngest of us all . . . but not by much.

People down here call us the Summer Children. We started our lives as a complete set.

Ten. The most perfect number. The number of divine harmony. The number at the heart of the universe. Ten commandments. Ten plagues of Egypt.

Ten babies born to eight different families.

A real population boom for little bitty La Cachette. One hundred tiny fingers and one hundred tiny toes. All of us arriving that same year, between the vernal equinox in March and the autumnal equinox in September.

Me and Elora. And Hart.

Evangeline.

Serafina and Lysander.

Case.

Mackey.

Ember and Orli.

I wonder if the others have changed, too. Like Evie. I wonder if Elora had.

Shit.

Has.

Suddenly, there’s this ache inside me that feels big enough to fall into. And, unlike me, maybe Evie is a mind reader, because she puts one arm around my shoulders and gives me an awkward squeeze.

Only, I know she isn’t a mind reader. Evie is clairaudient. She hears things. Messages. Words. Snatches of whispered conversation. Music sometimes. Like a radio in her head. That’s her gift.

And my mother wasn’t a true mind reader, either. Not really. She saw color auras. That was her thing. Which explains how I got my name. Imagine looking at your perfect baby girl and seeing her swimming in a sea of gray.

The color of fog and indecision.

The color of nothing special.

The color of everything that’s in between.

“We’re glad you’re here, Grey.” Evie’s words are so soft. She always talks quiet, like she’s afraid of drowning out the voices in her head. If it were me, I think I’d talk loud, so I wouldn’t have to hear their whispering. “We’ve been waiting for you,” she adds. And I know she means all of them.

Well, all of them except Ember and Orli, of course, because they’ve been dead forever.

And all of them except Elora.

Because Elora’s been gone a little over three months now. One night back in February, she walked into the swamp and vanished. Almost like she’d never been here at all.

“You seen Hart yet?” Evie asks.

“I haven’t seen anyone,” I tell her. “Except you.”

“He’s not doing so good, Grey.” There’s something strange in her voice, and she looks away from me. Out toward the river. “I mean, it’s been real hard on everybody, but Hart . . . he . . .” Evie shakes her head and chews on a ragged cuticle. “You’ll see for yourself, I guess.”

It feels wrong, the two of us gossiping about Hart before I’ve even had a chance to lay eyes on him. I know he wouldn’t like it.

“Is Honey up?” I ask.

“Yeah,” Evie says. “She’s in the back room unpacking a bunch of new yoga DVDs. I just came over to bring some muffins for the boat people.”

To everyone else, my grandmother is Miss Roselyn. But I call her Honey. She runs the spiritualist bookstore, which happens to be the only real business in town. The Mystic Rose sells books, sure, but also amulets, crystals, incense, candles, healing herbs, and now yoga DVDs, apparently. On busy weekends Evie’s mama, Bernadette, makes a little money by sending over fresh baked goods and sandwiches for Honey to peddle to the hungry tourists.

“I better let her know I’m here,” I say. “She thinks I’m coming in on the ten o’clock boat.”

There are no roads that lead to La Cachette. To get here, first you drive to the end of the world, then you get on a boat and keep on going. Two hours south of New Orleans, Highway 23 dead-ends in Kinter, a tiny almost-town where you can buy groceries, gas, and roundtrip “scenic” boat rides to the Psychic Capital of the World. From there, the journey downriver to La Cachette takes another half hour.

The town, if it’s even big enough to be called that, sits on a low-lying island, absolutely as far south as you can get in Louisiana, just above the spot where the Mighty Mississippi splits into three fingers and then splinters into a hundred more before it finally floods out into the bayou, eventually reaching the Gulf of Mexico. Ol’ Man River on one side and nothing but waterlogged swamp on the other.

As Hart likes to say, one way in. And no way out.

I glance at an old wooden sign nailed to a post out on the boat dock.

Welcome to La Cachette, Louisiana
Elevation 3 Ft.
Population 106 Living Souls

The only time the number changes is when someone gets born.

Or dies.

Somewhere inside my head, a voice jeers that they’ll have to repaint it. Because of Elora. But I close my ears. Don’t let myself listen.

Just then, Honey calls to me from inside the bookstore. “Grey, you gonna come in here and see me?”

Evie gives me a little smile as she stands up to leave. “She knows.” A whisper of a breeze moves through, and I hear the tinkle of wind chimes from someplace nearby. It’s a nice sound. Almost like laughter.

Evie’s smile fades. “Miss Roselyn always knows.”

She turns and starts down the boardwalk in the direction of her house, right next door. But I stop her with a question that I hadn’t planned to ask.

“Do you think she’s dead?”

Evie stares at me for a few seconds. She’s twisting that long strand of white-blonde hair around and around one finger again. She blinks at me with pale blue eyes, then answers me with a question of her own. “Do you?”

“I don’t know,” I say. “I hope not.”

I don’t tell Evie the rest of it, though. I don’t say that Elora can’t be dead, because, if she is, I don’t know how I’ll keep breathing.

Evie reaches up to swat away a horsefly that’s buzzing around her head, and when she opens her mouth to speak again, I want to tell her I’m not asking for her opinion. I want to know if she knows. For sure. If she’s got that radio in her head tuned to Elora’s frequency. But all she says is, “Welcome home, Grey.”

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Razorbill (August 30, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593403983
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593403983
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 - 17 years
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ HL560L
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 9 - 12
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.56 x 1.12 x 8.25 inches

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D. K. Boyd

Mysterious, page turning novel - I loved it

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2024

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I am so glad I stumbled upon this author. I loved this magical mystery. The characters are so real, and the twists at the end were something I didn't quite anticipate. Really excellent YA book with some heavy themes. I loved it, and can't wait to read more by this author.

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Intriguing Mystery with a Dash of Paranormal

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2021

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Ginny Myers Sain’s debut, Dark and Shallow Lies is the paranormal mystery thriller we’ve all been waiting for! This was a deeply intriguing read that held me riveted pretty much from the start. I loved that Grey lived in a town where just about everyone had a psychic talent. There must be something special in their water! This was one mystery that had me guessing throughout the story and I honestly didn’t see the killer coming!

Grey is returning to Louisiana home for the summer. She spends her school year with her father out of state and in the summer she always returns to her bayou home. Though this year is different, her best friend, her birthday twin, Elora has been missing since February and she is determined to find out what happened to her.

Grey and her friends are known as the Summer Children as they were all born in the same summer some weeks and days apart. They’re all psychics, except for Grey. She hasn’t developed any powers…yet. Everyone is still mourning the loss of Elora. No one knows what happened to her, but it seems most have written her off for dead after all this time. But Grey holds out on hope. If anything, she at least wants to find the answers to what happened to her best friend.

The story moves along at a somewhat slower pace. Grey isn’t actively investigating 24/7. Part of me did get a little bored when things just seemed too normal. But it was never for very long as something odd would happen or some memory would spark something or even a clue would be found. There was never a very long pause for normalcy and that was appreciated.

Grey meets a mysterious new stranger in town named Zale. He’s a quiet sort of boy who just makes her feel things she never thought possible. But also in town, is her long ago crush Hart. There is some sort of love like triangle going on, but it’s not one of those “who will Grey choose” and readers divide out into teams. It was hard to figure out which guy was the right one for Grey, both had their merits, but Grey was never actually pursuing a relationship with anyone.

What I enjoyed a lot and thought gave a great eerie feel to the story was the short paragraph that came with each chapter of something scary happening. It’s describing a scene that ends up being long series of dreams that Grey is having that give clues to what might have happened to Elora all those months ago.

The atmosphere to this book was spot on! Summers in Louisiana just a few hours away from good ol’ New Orleans! It was a sight to see, even if we never really get into NOLA. But you could really feel the heightened heat of the summer and smell the nearby ocean and the swampy areas where the gators live. Ginny really painted a scene in this book and I positive loved it!

The great mystery reveal was even more shocking! There was an array of suspects, but I felt like I never quite pinpointed it down to whodunit. The aftermath of it all was even more shocking! This was a book that gave me a few good chills. Not bone-chilling, but chilling all the same! My only issue with this one was that at times the pacing dragged into too much normalcy and in a town full of psychics you wouldn’t really expect that. I knew there was no other paranormal elements in this one besides that factor, though on occasion you are led to wonder if some of the other children aren’t really seeing something odd or not.

Needless to say, Dark and Shallow Lies was a book that kept me guessing to the very end! I am definitely keeping this author on my radar for future books and I would recommend you do so as well!

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Amazing story, beautifully written.

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2024

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I loved this book. Couldn’t put it down. I love mysteries and thrillers. The atmosphere and noir are perfect. You can feel what it’s like living in La Cachette and the magic in the air.

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In a small bayou village a group of children was born and they have spent their lives enmeshed. Grey and Elora were born on the same day and have always had an extra special bond so when Elora goes missing, Grey can't cope until she figures out what happened to her friend. The town is unique in that many of its residents have psychic abilities so our story has some magical overtones. Grey must figure out was Elora a victim of the mystical monster the rougarou or something much more real and sinister?

I really liked Grey and her peers. The setting was so dark and atmospheric. The balance of creepy to mystery was done really well. There are a lot of secrets in the town and they are revealed and come together nicely. I just think this one could have been 100 pages shorter and packed just as much punch.

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Great read just in time for spooky season!!

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2021

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"Knowing is hard," he says, "but it's a thing you can survive. The not knowing will kill you in the end. It's the secrets that fester."

First, let me start by thanking the author and publisher for sending me an ARC copy of this book. Now, let me begin by saying that this was the perfect book to read during the Halloween season!! It had all those spooky and gothic vibes that you love to experience during this time of year! I love the southern feel to the authors style of writing with this novel! I feel like it gave the story that much more connection with the reader. The plot is phenomenal, and well thought out! I found myself jumping back and forth for a while trying to figure out who killed Elora. It is full of twist and turns and that New Orleans way of life everyone loves to experience. I highly recommend this novel to anyone who loves a spooky story about an unsolved disappears in a town full of psychics!

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Zara k.

Loved it

Reviewed in India on September 16, 2023

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Favourite book I read in 2022!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2023

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I bought this book for a friend shortly after in came out in September 2021. I found it because I wanted a recently published novel to make sure that I wouldn't buy a book that my friend already had. The cover and synopsis sounded so interesting that I had to pick myself up a copy too, although I ended up reading it almost a year later, in summer 2022. Now it's almost a year on from then, and I still think about Dark and Shallow Lies.

Atmospheric, tense, twisty. Give it a read if you like mystery stories with a side of magic!

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Valentina gubiani

Un thriller a tinte fantasy!

Reviewed in Italy on November 20, 2021

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In breve la trama: la diciassettenne Grey fa ritorno, come ogni estate, al piccolo villaggio di La Cachette in Louisiana, ospite dalla nonna materna.
Il suo ritorno però è segnato da una tragedia avvenuta mesi prima: la sua migliore amica Elora è scomparsa e di lei non si hanno avuto più notizie. Grey quindi decide di far luce su quanto le è successo ma non sà che per farlo dovrà vedersela con i più oscuri segreti degli abitanti del villaggio.
Tra vecchi amori, un nuovo misterioso ragazzo e gli amici di sempre, i Summer Children, Grey trascorrerà un estate che difficilmente riuscirà a dimenticare.
Si tratta di un thriller con elementi fantasy: se da un parte troviamo Grey e la sua indagine personale sulla scomparsa di Elora, dall’altra troviamo invece gli abitanti di La Cachette, tutti dotati di un “potete” soprannaturale che varia dal poter leggere i tarocchi al predire come una persona morirà.
Io personalmente l’ho trovato un romanzo molto avvincente sia per la trama sia, soprattutto, per i personaggi, complicati ma molto ben strutturati e credibili nel complesso. Il romanzo è ricco di colpi di scena tanto che alla fine sono stata costretta a ricredermi sulle convinzioni che mi ero fatta leggendolo.
Molto interessante è la parte più “esoterica” della storia. Ogni “potere” degli abitanti trova un tassello perfetto a cui agganciarsi nella storia creando alla fine un puzzle perfetto.
Quindi se vi piacciono i misteri, ma siete anche attratti dalla magia e il triangolo “protagonista-bad boy-ragazzo carino ma misterioso”è il vostro pane quotidiano questo è il romanzo che fa per voi!
Menzione speciale a Pesca per aver interpretato Sweet-N-Low, il bassotto della protagonista. ~
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Kim Schaap - Hooiveld

Little bit spooky

Reviewed in the Netherlands on September 1, 2023

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I LOVE THE COVER!

Its a easy read, little bit spooky.
I was disepoinded that the amazon men didn’t ring the doorbell but shoved it in de mailbox:-(

Toni Harness

Fantastic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 11, 2021

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Wonderful debut novel with complex characters and a setting that’s very easy to picture. The cover drew me in and the book did not disappoint.

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