As a young adult, Phoebe lived a rough and wild life, dating the wrong men, living on the edge. One evening, she sees a little boy through a window in his house. His sister Lisa has just gone missing in the woods of Vermont. Fifteen years later, that boy, Sam, and Phoebe, ten years his senior are in love and trying to escape their pasts. Sam is contacted by his cousin Evie, with whom he lost contact shortly after Lisa’s disappearance. Once Evie enters Sam and Phoebe’s lives, everything they believed to be true is torn apart and nothing is as it seems. Evie claims to have Lisa’s fairy book that was lost after her disappearance. As Phoebe learns more, she is not sure of everything she knows about Sam, or thought she knew about his family, and knows that the dark man who used to lurk about when she was a child has returned, but can’t place who he his or what he wants. The plot gets very complicated and woo-woo and hard to summarize without plot spoilers; it alternates between Sam and Phoebe’s present and the summer fifteen years ago when Lisa disappeared into the land of the fairies. Nothing is as it seems and Phoebe is beginning to think that nothing she knows is real. Slow in places, and awkward in transition between years at first, it takes a little bit to get into the book, but once things start happening, it will make you wonder what is going on. The ending is not quite as satisfying as it might be and leaves many questions unanswered, but all in all, a good choice for a quick, scary read on a warm summer’s day.
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