The truth Avril seeks is ready to be discovered. And Avril keeps meeting herself-and her dead mother-late at night, at the edge of the ocean. Echoes of long-past moments bounce off the marsh. Distances seem to shift in the strange fog. Now, at seventeen, she’s returning to Whisper Cove for the first time, and she might finally unravel the mystery of what really happened.Īs Avril becomes more involved with camp director Willa and her mysterious son Cole, Whisper Cove reveals itself to her. Diana Urban, author of All Your Twisted Secrets About the Author Ginny Myers Sain lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has spent the past twenty years working closely with teens as a director and acting instructor in a program designed for high school. What first inspired you to write for young readers I come from a family of writers, but I’ve spent most of my career working as an acting teacher and director with high school students who are intent on pursuing careers in the professional. She’s spent the past twelve years trying to make sense of the strange bits and pieces she does remember from the night she lost her mother. Ginny Myers Sain’s haunting, lush, lyrical prose will keep you captivated till the end. Ginny Myers Sain with Mississippi River in the background, about 30 miles from where her book is set. While Avril doesn’t believe in ghosts, she knows there are lots of different ways for places, and people, to be haunted. Because, as they say at Whisper Cove, what the sea wants, the sea will have. Local legend claims that the women in the waves-ghosts from old whaling stories-called her mother into the ocean with their whispering. It was ruled an accident, but Avril’s never been totally convinced. Twelve years ago, Avril’s mother drowned at Whisper Cove theater, just off the rocky Connecticut coastline.

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