A haunted story narrated by two devoted sisters: one of them is dead, the other one barely faces shocking realities of her distorted past!

A big family secret, tormented lives, lies, suppressed memories and unsolved murder!

After losing her sister May, June realizes the summer cottage located at Avril Island she’d spent her childhood hasn’t been sold as their mother told her after their father’s sudden disappearance. June was only 12 when they left the place. She didn’t question anything about the past, deciding to move on her life with her children, adjusting the ending of her dysfunctional marriage.

But now she’s all alone! Her partner in crime, her best friend sister is dead at a tragic car accident. And she just inherited the nearly 100 years old cottage / their summer house she’d thought it’s already gone decades ago. Entire island was the gift to her mother from French grandparents. And now she is the owner of island but the locals may not welcome her with opened arms as you may imagine. And the reason is not the nearly 3 decades of time lapse. She finds out the islanders think her father might have been involved into murder and he just escaped before getting convicted!

She starts digging around and this investigation also bringing out more childhood memories! She starts to see things from different angle and she has hard time to digest the things she finds out!

I think I loved both sisters’ emotional and meaningful bounding more than the mystery part of the book. June is the last one left behind of the family as May already left the earth but via her narration we learn more about their family dynamics and we get more reliable look at their lives.

It was one of my quickest reads! It’s hooking you up and you breathlessly keep on turning ( or sliding) the pages!

I am giving my four islander, riveting, exciting, family drama stars!

Special thanks to NetGalley and Crooked Lane for sharing this reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.