Dark and Shallow Lies

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 “darkly atmospheric” (School Library Journal) supernatural thriller.

“Haunting . . . a totally engrossing small-town mystery about what happens when you finally dig up long-buried secrets.”—Jessica Goodman, New York Times bestselling author of They’ll Never Catch Us

“Fans of Brenna Yovanoff’s Fiendish or Natalie C. Parker’s Beware the Wild will find this atmospheric thriller deeply satisfying.”—BCCB

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

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.

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. But as she digs in to the night 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 call to Grey from beyond the grave.

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. Suddenly, she doesn’t know who she can trust. In a town where secrets fester just below the surface like water rot, 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.