More than two dozen people have disappeared without a trace on local hiking trails in Lucifers Creek, Arkansas, and 17-year-old Dovie can hear the bones of the dead calling for her to dig them up, in a gothic supernatural thriller. Simultaneous eBook.
Seventeen-year-old Dovie, who can hear the bones of the dead, and her best friend Lo, who believes he is haunted by the ghosts of murdered hikers, must uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearances in their Ozark mountain town before anyone elseis killed.
From New York Times bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies comes a new southern gothic supernatural thriller about a teen girl in a small Ozark town who can hear the bones of the dead.
For fans of House of Hollow and She Is a Haunting.
The past three years have been tough for Lucifers Creek, Arkansas, a small town quietly tucked away in the Ozark mountains. More than two dozen people have disappeared on the local hiking trails; there one moment, gone the next, not a trace left behind, until their buried bodies are discovered.
17-year-old Dovie doesnt believe in magic even though she comes from a long line of women who can hear the bones of the dead sing, and for the past few years the bones have been crooning nonstop, calling out to Dovie to dig them up.
Some of the old-timers believe that its the monstrous Ozarks howler snatching people off the Aux Arc Trail. Well Dovie doesnt believe in the howler, and she doesnt believe her best friend Lo when he tells her he is being haunted by dark shadows. All she believes in is her talent that guides the local sheriff to the bones when they begin their song, then reuniting the dead with their families to give them some peace.
Lo doesnt know peace, though. The shadows follow him everywhere. He soon learns theyre the murdered hikers and they want answers. But the truth of their deaths isnt buried with their bones; its hidden somewhere deep in the hills. And Lo and Dovie must unearth it before anyone else is killed.
