Shadowed Summer

I told you about my nightstand. Well, I've been racing through it at an amazing pace. I can't wait to tell you about Shadowed Summer which takes place in the heat of the deep south. Interestingly, I read it in the freezing, snowy Pennsylvania Mountains.

The 411:
Iris is ready for another hot, routine summer in her small Louisiana town, hanging around the Red Stripe grocery with her best friend, Collette, and traipsing through the cemetery telling each other spooky stories and pretending to cast spells. Except this summer, Iris doesn't have to make up a story. This summer, one falls right in her lap.

Years ago, before Iris was born, a local boy named Elijah Landry disappeared. All that remained of him were whispers and hushed gossip in the church pews. Until this summer.

A ghost begins to haunt Iris, and she's certain it's the ghost of Elijah. What really happened to him? And why, of all people, has he chosen Iris to come back to?

The recommendation: Being a north-easterner, the southern references and dialogue took me a few pages to get used to, but once I did, I loved that it was true to the South. I flew through this and I couldn't put it down because I just had to know what happened to Iris.

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