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.Īn intensely romantic and atmospheric thriller for young adults, full of twists and turns with a simmering supernatural undercurrent.

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. 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. 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. 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.When 17-year-old Grey makes her annual visit to La Cachette, Louisiana - the tiny bayou town that proclaims to be the “Psychic Capital of the World” - she knows it will be different from past years: her childhood best friend Elora went missing several months earlier and no one is telling the truth about the night she disappears. Suddenly, she doesn't know who she can trust.

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. 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. Taking place, as Ginny Myers Sain describes it, in the in-between spaces where magic feels most possible, it’s a story that crackles off the page and into readers’ hearts, where it will stay for a long time to come. 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. Dark and Shallow Lies is an all-consuming and lyrically written book that envelops you in its small-town Louisiana atmosphere. 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.

La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide. 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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