About
the Book
To save the innocent, they must face an insidious evil.
Wren
Blythe has long enjoyed living in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, helping her
father with ministry 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 is believed to still roam the forest. Joining the
search, Wren stumbles upon the Coonses' cabin ruins and a sinister mystery she
is determined to unearth.
In
1930, Ava Coons has spent the last several years carrying the mantle of mystery
since the day she emerged from the woods as a thirteen-year-old girl, spattered
with blood, dragging a logger's ax. She has accepted she will never remember
what happened to her family, whose bodies were never found, and that the people
of Tempter's Creek will always blame her for their violent deaths. And after a member
of the town is murdered, and another goes missing, rumors spread that Ava's
secret is perhaps more malicious than previously imagined.
Two
women, separated by time, must confront a wickedness that not only challenges
who they are but also threatens their lives, and the lives of those they love.
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My Review 5 STARS
“We’re all lost in our own
ways. Some of us just hide when we shouldn’t. We hide in our grief, in our
minds, in our pain…in the woods…or in a story, like Ava Coons.”
Dual
time lines (or time-slip) novels are some of my favorites to read, especially
when they are high caliber like The Souls
of Lost Lake. The suspense is phenomenal, as always, but there is just something
about this tale that grabbed hold of my imagination and will not let go. Maybe
because I love “camp fire tales” and my husband and I told so many of them to
our children during their growing up years that this book resonated with me as
much as it did. I don’t know. I do know that for the last two weeks since I
finished the book, Ava Coons still rattles around in my brain almost daily!
Wright turned up the “heebie-jeebies” with this one and provided a feast for the senses. The characters jumped off the paper, cementing themselves in my mind, because they were not going to let me get away. Excellent, excellent summer reading!!! I’d give this book 10 stars if I could!
I
was provided a copy by the publisher through Netgalley. No compensation has
been received.
