Seventeen-year-old Gracelyn Lassiter has been hiding in her aunt's house for four years-since her mother plunged from the cliffs at Feroz Lighthouse, leaving her without her home, her best friend, or answers. Now, her father's burned to death in his sailboat and left a confession: "Your mother didn't jump, I pushed her."
The trauma triggers Gracelyn's ability to see spirits so real she can't tell who's human and who's a ghost-except for the gray-veiled Shadow Man who begs her to return to Feroz and find her mother's journal.
When her cruel cousin posts his confession on social media, Feroz seems like a safe place to escape. And if Gracelyn can see ghosts, she can conjure her mother's spirit and hear the truth from her own lips. But her lighthouse haven is awash with spirits, secrets, and lies-and the closer Gracelyn gets to the truth, the more she realizes the dead aren't the only ones desperate to keep the past in the past.
THE SHADOW MAN is a Young Adult novel by B.C. author, Harper Carr, inspired by her experiences working for the Coast Guard as a lighthouse keeper on the West Coast of Canada.
Carr, Harper: - Wendy Hawkin writes as W. L. Hawkin and Harper Carr from her home in the Pacific Northwest. She's a genre-blender, so you might find crime, adventure, supernatural elements, and romantic suspense interwoven in her books. Her novel, Lure: Jesse & Hawk (2022) won a National Indie Excellence Award, a Gold Reader's Choice award from Connections E-magazine, a Crowned Heart Review from InD'tale Magazine, and placed as a finalist in The UK Wishing Shelf Book Awards. Lure is a small-town romantic suspense story set on a Chippewa Reservation in Minnesota, and is the first of her Lure River Romances. The sequel, Lure: The Silent Girl will be published soon.If you like "myth, magic, and mayhem" her Hollystone Mysteries feature a coven of West Coast witches who solve murders using ritual magic and a little help from the gods. The books-To Charm a Killer, To Sleep with Stones, To Render a Raven, To Kill a King, and To Dance with Destiny-follow Estrada, a free-spirited, bisexual magician and coven high priest as he endeavors to save his family and friends while sorting through his own personal issues. Each of the Tattoo Editions-designed by Yassi Art & Design-feature a hand-drawn tattoo worn by a prominent character.As Wendy got to know Estrada, she realized the series revolved around him and his search for love and belonging. So, when she created her new pen name-Harper Carr-she rebranded the Hollystone Mysteries as The Man in Black series to honor him. Harper Carr also writes genre-blending teen fiction. Her YA novel, The Shadow Man was a finalist in the 2023 Pacific Northwest Writers Association unpublished manuscript contest.As an intuitive writer, Wendy captures what she sees and hears on the page, and allows her muses to guide her through the creative process. In Writing with your Muse: a Guide to Creative Inspiration, she explains her writing process and offers tips and techniques to help writers get their words on the page.Wendy needs to feel the energy of the land so, although she's an introvert, in each book her characters go on a journey where she's traveled herself. If you don't find her at Blue Haven Press, she's out wandering by woods and water, listening to her muses with her beautiful yellow dog.
