kate alice marshall these fleeting shadows

Unable to ignore the gaps in the case, Pip sets out to prove Sal’s innocence, beginning with interviewing his younger brother, Ravi.

Andie’s body was never recovered, and Sal was assumed by most to be guilty of abduction and murder. The original investigation concluded with most of the evidence pointing to Sal, who was found dead in the woods, apparently by suicide. For her senior capstone project, Pip researches the disappearance of former Fairview High student Andie, last seen on April 18, 2014, by her younger sister, Becca. Pip has known and liked Sal since childhood he’d supported her when she was being bullied in middle school. Most characters are cued as White Desmond is Black.īy turns bewildering, nightmarish, and heart-wrenching.Įveryone believes that Salil Singh killed his girlfriend, Andrea Bell, five years ago-except Pippa Fitz-Amobi. However, those with a taste for tough questions will find many to ponder in this creepy, poignant tale: What makes a family? Are people born evil? Helen and Bryony’s tentative romance lightens the gloom. At times, the plot is as convoluted as Harrow’s shifting halls readers will share Helen’s increasing disorientation. Is it the house’s dark entity, expressed through misshapen monsters and ghostly figures? Or is it someone from her estranged family, whose members harbor grudges and grief? Aided by her cousins, Desmond and Celia, and an aloof, enigmatic witch named Bryony, Helen makes a devastating discovery that threatens everything she knows. Something doesn’t want her to learn Harrow’s secrets. As Helen’s dreams of being buried intensify and she learns of Harrow’s troubling history of mysterious deaths and missing girls, her health crumbles in visceral, horrifying ways. When her grandfather’s death compels her return, Helen is stunned to learn that she stands to inherit Harrow…if she can survive a year living in a house that seems to have a malevolent mind of its own. Plagued by nightmares, visions, and strange events-and inexplicably detested by everyone she meets-17-year-old Helen Vaughan has been a pariah ever since she and her mother left Harrow, their ancestral home, 10 years ago.

A teen battles mysterious forces upon returning to her childhood home.

Kate alice marshall these fleeting shadows