The souls of Lost Lake

Jaime Jo Wright

eBook - 2022

Wren Blythe has long enjoyed being among the Northwoods, helping her father with programming at a youth camp. But when, a little girl in the area goes missing, an all-out search ensues, reviving the decades-old campfire story of Ava Coons, the murderess, who still roams the woods. Joining the search, Wren stumbles upon the Coons cabin ruins and a rotting porcelain doll. But, even more, terrifying is seeing her name etched on the doll's foot like a sinister omen. In 1930, Ava Coons has spent the last ten years carrying the mantle of mystery since she emerged from the forest as an eight-year-old girl, spattered with blood, dragging a logger's axe. She has accepted she'll never remember what happened to her family. When a member... of the town of Tempter's Creek is murdered, rumors spread that Ava's secret is more malicious than previously imagined. Both women discover that to save the innocent, they must face an insidious evil.

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Published
[United States] : Baker Publishing Group 2022.
Language
English
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Jaime Jo Wright (author)
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hoopla digital (-)
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1 online resource
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN
9781493436071
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AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
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Review by Booklist Review

Wren Blythe grew up hearing the legend of Ava Coons, a young woman who vanished after murdering her family in a remote Wisconsin logging community. But when a young girl goes missing in the forest near the bible camp where Wren lives and works, she cannot shake the sense that something in the woods is still haunting, and hunting, them all. Wren's strained family ties escalate her paranoia, and she devolves into frenetic desperation to find the girl. But a series of mysterious messages and menacing sightings may mean that the legend of Ava Coons is not just a ghost story but part of Wren's horrifying reality. Wright (The Cliffs at Foxglove Manor, 2021) has proven time and again with her masterful storytelling in exceptionally crafted novels that she is a trailblazer extraordinaire in the niche genre combining horror, intrigue, and spirituality. The Souls of Lost Lake lures readers in with a campfire ghost story that gradually becomes intricately woven into a mind-bending psychological thriller about trauma and coping. Wright uses her signature sophistication to peel back the layers of horror on the surface to reveal the humanity brought to life in a tale of intoxicating menace, eerie elegance, and satisfying suspense.

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