This is told in a staggering timeline with the perfectly unreliable narrator.

This is a story that will keep you guessing until the end. It’s filled with heinous people and the heinous acts they commit, but also retribution and penance.

Our protagonist is searching for something… along with her young niece, she travels back to a town where terrible things had happened… and upon her search for truth about missing girls, she finds connections between current events and her own past.

This had this great eerie pace, characters in which you simply didn’t know what you were going to get and a decades old evil that’s been lurking in plain sight.

The audiobook narration was so well done. The narrator puts you at ease with her melodic voice, while still delivering a pulse pounding story!

Traveling from the 1950s to the present, this book revolves around a small seaside vacation compound and the young girls who have disappeared from the area. The primary storyteller is Charlie, who relives her childhood in the 1980s and a ghost story game gone terribly wrong and Charlie in the present, back in the town where things went so terribly wrong. Charlie’s childhood friendship with Emily, a girl who appears to be suffering terrible physical abuse at the hands of her father. Charlie tells a fictional story about a ghost that will avenge Emily if the girls perform a ritual, offering up gifts to the ghost. When a gift ends in murder, things spiral out of control. Now, years later, Emily is on the verge of publishing a tell-all book blaming Charlie for the murder. As Charlie struggles to connect the story of the missing girls and thwart Melanie’s book plans, she begins to remember things. Things that, until now, she would have sworn didn’t happen. I loved this book, I was trying to piece together the real story throughout most of the book.

Missing girls, dark secrets, the past and dangerous caves.

Charlie and her niece Katie go to Hithechurch, England where Charlie is researching a book on local folklore. For Charlie it will be like coming home. When Charlie was a girl she met Emily, a girl her age with an abusive father. The girls perform a ritual to summon "Stitch Face Sue" an urban legend believed to haunt the town seeking revenge for her murder. Their ritual goes horribly, horribly wrong. Now, Emily has written a memoir about what happened when they were young, blaming Charlie for everything. Charlie wants to clear her name and find proof that Emily was the one to blame. But soon the past will collide with her present. While doing her research, Charlie learns of missing girls and feels as if she is being watched...

I had both the book and the audiobook. I thought the narrator did a fine job. The synopsis was very intriguing, and I had high hopes for this book. I think my hopes were a little too high. For me this book was slow in parts, and it dragged my enjoyment down. This is a case of me struggling with slower books. I will say that the last third of the book really picked up and was quite good.

Overall, I enjoyed the book.