Most of the characters in this story are at, or right around, 17 years of age. DARK AND SHALLOW LIES is part coming of age, part romance, part paranormal, and a lot of mystery. Though it is not the type of mystery novels (cozy mysteries) I typically read, I found DARK AND SHALLOW LIES by Ginny Myers Sain to be very entertaining and enjoyable. What she uncovers will forever change her life. Grey has returned to her hometown from Little Rock in hopes of discovering what happened to Elora. Elora, Grey’s twin flame and very best friend, has been missing since March. Now it appears their number may be decreased again. At the age of four, their number decreased to eight when Ember and Orli were abducted and found floating in the pond on Keller Island. These ten children share a remarkable bond and are collectively known as the Summer Children. She grew up with the nine other children who were born in La Cachette, Louisiana that same summer. Grey was born in the psychic capital of the world seventeen summers ago. 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.'Great Mystery with a Paranormal Flair' Dark and Shallow Lies 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. 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. 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.

Dark shallow lies