The Drowning Summer
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- USD 11.99
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- USD 11.99
Publisher Description
A gorgeously atmospheric contemporary fantasy of two Long Island teens and fledgling mediums investigating a murder in their small town by the New York Times bestselling author of The Devouring Gray.
Mina Zanetti is a fledgling medium, desperate to share in her mother's world and speak with the dead. But Sand Dollar Cove is a grieving town, still recovering from the unsolved murders of three teenagers six years ago, found with sand dollars on their eyes. And Evelyn Mackenzie has felt every day of it, as the town blames her father for the deaths.
When Mina and Evelyn conduct a ritual to speak to the dead they unwittingly become the centre of a deadly triangle – who murdered those teenagers, Mina's family and their hidden past, and the furies of the spirit realm.
Mina And Evelyn must learn to rebuild their trust, and unearth all the buried mysteries of Sand Dollar Cove to lay the ghosts of The Drowning Summer to rest.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Herman's (All of Us Villains) atmospherically told tale of the supernatural, 16-year-old fashion designer Mina Zanetti wants to join the family business—not the Italian American catering company that her mother, Stella, runs in Long Island suburb Cliffside Bay, but the Zanetti clan's work as mediums transitioning ghosts from one world to the next. Hoping for some on-the-job training, Mina accompanies Stella to Sand Dollar Cove, a beach where three high school juniors were killed six years prior in a never-solved case, and where Stella uses saltwater to communicate with ghosts of the dead. Meanwhile, Mina's former friend Evelyn Mackenzie, also 16, heads to the Cove to summon a spirit, hoping that it will remove evidence that she has cheated on a test. But her clumsy efforts cause trouble for the teens, both bisexual and white-cued, who recall a previous summoning that ended their friendship. The author ticks a wide range of age-bracket and genre standbys—troubles with parents, a past mystery, and false accusations—but wider-world problems, including pollution, add layers and originality to the plot. Ages 14–up.
