Grey is the only one of the Summer Children who has never manifested a psychic gift and she still holds out hope that Elora is still alive because even Elora’s step-brother, Hart (a psychic empath who feels people’s emotions), believes that she’s dead. Grey used to love her summers in La Cachette but she’s been dreading this trip because she hasn’t spoken with Elora since their fight and then Elora went missing in February and no one has a clue about what happened to her. Grey spends most of the year living with her father in Little Rock, Arkansas but returns to La Cachette every May to spend the summer with her grandmother, Honey, who runs a spiritualist bookstore. Or at least, they did until the summer of the previous year when they had a furious argument that culminated in Elora punching Grey in the face.

Grey is one of the Summer Children – a group of 10 babies born over a single spring and summer – and although she’s the only one yet to manifest a psychic ability, she was born at the same time as her best friend Elora and the two have always had a close and intense friendship. La Cachette is the Psychic Capital of the World where tourists flock for readings and to get answers about deceased loved ones and their own lives. I earn commission on any purchases made through these links.ġ7-year-old Grey was born and spent the first eight years of her life in the small town of La Cachette in Louisiana, about 2 hours south of New Orleans and accessible only by boat. You can order DARK AND SHALLOW LIES by Ginny Myers Sain from Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or UK. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book. Magic and secrets fester beneath the surface of La Cachette and its dark and shallow lies are about to blow the town apart …ĭARK AND SHALLOW LIES was released in the United Kingdom on 2nd September 2021. Not her grandmother nor her childhood love, and least of all the stormy-eyed boy who emerges from the bayou. When Grey discovers a connection between Elora’s disappearance and a pair of grisly murders thirteen years earlier, she realises she can’t trust anyone. Grey’s best friend Elora has been missing for months. Seventeen-year-old Grey returns to La Cachette, Louisiana – the small town where she grew up – every summer.

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