Twelve-year-old eco-activist turned detective Ava Frylander, doesn’t remember falling over the cliffs into the raging waterfall at Laureleaf Park. All she knows is, Tony is dead and it wasn’t an accident.
She braves Hawkthorn’s grungy underground tunnels — where, according to local legend, souls of the recently departed roam — hoping to conjure her best friend’s ghost and identify his killer.
When she’s chased off by a groaning black shadow, Ava manages to escape but she’s not the only one who emerges from the tunnels.
BIOGRAPHY Stephanie Cotela is an art historian and novelist who loves ghost stories. Originally from New York, she's been living in the UK for nearly two decades with her two sons and large orange cat. She writes across genres from picture books about polar bears to adult crime thrillers.