Two towns, two halves of one story, two ghosts, two halves of one life...

When Marnie moved with her parents from her home in busy downtown Ottawa to tiny Pryeville-- a town barely on the map-- she didn't have high hopes for any part of their new life. She'd left behind all her friends in Ottawa, just to start middle school in a building so small, both grades were taught in the same room. But meeting Sophia changed everything, sending her life spiraling along to the beat of the ethereal hooves that seemed to follow her...

For Edgar, too, life seemed like it couldn't get worse. Stuck with his cruel, uncaring father, all he wanted to do was build himself a computer and maybe figure out what his new friend, Donald, really made him feel. But with this new girl living in the town over from him, from where he lived in Sowridge, spelling trouble of a different kind, a kind he comes face to face with himself one night...

It is suddenly up to four middle schoolers to solve the mystery of the two towns and their ghosts, whatever it takes, no matter how much their lives will change in the process...

A boy who thinks he’s the only strange thing in the world, and a girl who knows that she isn’t…

The first instalment in the Shimmering Lake Summer camp series, Whisper in the Woods follows Ronnie and Morgan, two teenagers with turbulent home lives, as they attend the first session of a summer camp focused on helping troubled youth connect to each other, themselves, and the world around them.

Ronnie has just been through a traumatizing event that he can't understand, and is being left in the dark about it by his own mother. Meanwhile, he struggles to piece together why he's been raised to believe he and his mother are the only vampires in the world.

Like most things in Morgan's life, going to camp was sprung on her without her consent, but it gets her away from her painful home life and offers a glimpse into the world of Silent Woods, where she, a werewolf, might find more belonging than the suburbs of Ottawa.

But there’s more to the camp than what anyone is telling them, and a long standing conflict is bubbling up in the lake…

She had never known a love like this...

After Morgan, Laurie, and Cherry make the brave-- and maybe a little crazy-- jump to move out of their family homes as teenagers, they are quickly faced with the struggles of living together for the first time.

In this heartwarming novella, picking up where the story left off at the end of Whisper in the Woods, the three girls come into their own while navigating each other's family dynamics and learning how to be young adults. Away from the abuse in their pasts, they find support and care in each other, forge new relationships, build themselves a true family, discover their new world, and finally know the depths of love.

Learning how to love your family, love yourself, and love the people right in front of you…

The second instalment in the Shimmering Lake Summer Camp series, Lured to the Lake follows Ava and Sid as they attend the second session of camp, one year after Ronnie and Morgan did, as camp counselors Shebal and Jason are joined by previous camper Abigail in their struggle to balance running the camp effectively while exposing the campers to the truth about Silent Woods.

Ava and her siblings, Gwen and Henry, have lived a long life of hardship. Even now that they’re living happily with their adoptive family, they struggle to handle the way life has treated them. Ava feels she will never be free of the shadow of their father, with Henry mirroring him more and more every day. When even the camp proves to not be a safe escape for her, it takes a lot, from love to magic, for her to feel safe again. But at the end of the summer, she discovers she is more than a scared little girl.

Meanwhile, Sid finds himself caught in this strange world. He thinks he's falling in love with a fellow camper, Hafsa, who can turn into a lion. He's trying to wrangle Gwen as she creeps around in the swamp on cryptic missions. He's not even able to sleep through the night with the mourning wailing of a kelpie-- not just any kelpie, but his glittering white stallion-- floating through his head like a magical song. He's not sure why, but he might be falling in love with him, too.

But they’re not the only thing lurking in the waters of Shimmering Lake, and a love triangle is the least of Sid’s problems…