Told in alternating points of view between the living and the dead,
Jessica Hamilton's debut novel will be perfect for fans of The Lovely
Bones.
Idyllic Avril lsland, owned by the Bennett family, where their
hundred-year-old cottage sat nestled in acres of forest. Forty-year-old
June Bennett believed that the island had been sold after the summer of
her father's disappearance when she was only twelve years old. It's
months after the shocking death of her older sister May in a fatal car
accident, that June finds out that the cottage was never sold. Avril
Island is still owned by the Bennett family and now it's hers.
Still reeling from the grief of losing her sister, June travels back to
Avril lsland in search of answers. As she digs, she learns that the
townspeople believe her father may in fact have been murdered rather
than having abandoned his family in the dead of night, as she was led to
believe by her mother. And that's when she begins to notice strange
things happening on the island--missing family possessions showing up,
doors locking on their own, unexplained noises in the night, shadowy
figures disappearing into the woods. It takes June no time at all to
realize that her childhood summers at Avril Island were not at all what
they had seemed to be.
