
Her friendships with fellow campers Val and Lex in particular are close in that way that only short-term shared experiences provide, and their connections are incredibly touching. Sain deftly writes Avril’s confusion, desperation, and fear so that readers experience everything alongside her. The atmosphere of Whisper Cove is palpable, the fog-laden shore haunting and heavy at night.

The pair become inseparable, eventually untangling the terrifying truth about what happened to Avril’s mother. When she meets Cole Culver, the son of her mother’s college friend Willa, their connection is instant and electric. Whisper Cove proves to be a place unlike any other, its thick fog enveloping the night and swirling through Avril’s clouded memories of her past.

All she remembers is waking up in the hospital. It’s no coincidence that she sought out this particular location, where her mother drowned 12 years ago and Avril herself nearly died. Seventeen-year-old Avril is in Whisper Cove on the Long Island Sound for a prestigious one-month acting camp. A teen returns to the site of her mother’s drowning looking for clues and memories.
