Ginny Myers Sain lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has spent the past twenty years working closely with teens as a director and acting instructor in a program designed for high school students seriously intent on pursuing a career in the professional theatre. Having grown up in deeply rural America, she is interested in telling stories about resilient kids who come of age in remote settings. Dark and Shallow Lies is her debut novel. Follow her on Twitter @stageandpage and on Instagram @ginnymyerssain, or find her on her website at ginnymyerssain.com.
* “Dreamy prose conjures a mythical Southern Gothic atmosphere,
mixing violence with a Byronic characterization of Elora’s
stepbrother Hart. Taut pacing builds sustained terror on the page
with each successive suspect in this formidable debut.” —Publishers
Weekly, starred review
“Murky waters, hidden gators, and nasty cottonmouths match the
setting to its darkly unsettling story….Fans of Brenna Yovanoff’s
Fiendish or Natalie C. Parker’s Beware the Wild will find this
atmospheric thriller deeply satisfying.” –BCCB
"A darkly atmospheric mystery set in the bayous of
Louisiana."— School Library Journal
“Haunting and arresting, this is one stunning debut. Ginny Myers
Sain has written a totally engrossing small-town mystery about
what happens when you finally dig up long-buried secrets.” —Jessica
Goodman, New York Times bestselling author of They'll Never Catch
Us
“Don’t even try to resist—Ginny Myers Sain will lure you into the
spellbinding world of the deep Louisiana bayou with this riveting
missing girl mystery populated by a bewitching cast of characters;
spun to life in lush, atmospheric prose; and teeming with a dark
mythology that is part folklore, part psychic mysticism, and
entirely compelling.” —Kit Frick, author of I Killed Zoe Spanos
“Enchanting and chilling at once, you’ll instantly get sucked into
this atmospheric tale of kindred spirits brimming with secrets that
could tear them apart. Ginny Myers Sain’s haunting, lush, lyrical
prose will keep you captivated till the end.” —Diana Urban, author
of All Your Twisted Secrets
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