Cole tells her that all the women who lived in the old whaling village on the site drowned themselves and their children when their men didn’t come back from sea. Avril hears whispering in the darkness and sometimes finds herself in a place she doesn’t remember walking to. The fog rolls in and skews everything at the cove. Photo credit: Sean Capshaw, Resolusean PhotographyĪs the days and weeks pass, and the cast rehearses Midnight Music, odd things happen. It’s as if they shared a past and knew each other intimately. He and Avril feel an instant connection when they see each other. Willa’s son Cole is a handsome but dark and brooding teenager. Then Whisper Cove was about to go bankrupt, so Nicole tried to help her friend make money by performing in a play there. But 12 years ago, Willa hadn’t yet written her blockbuster play, Midnight Music. Nicole was best friends with Whisper Cove’s theatrical legend, Willa Culver.

That’s the last place her mother was alive. She applied to attend the four-week “theater intensive” so she could somehow have more of a connection to her mother. Avril survived, but her mother did not.Īvril can’t remember anything about her mother it was like the sea washed everything away when she drowned. She was five when she and her mother, Nicole Kendrick, faced tragedy on the water. Seventeen-year-old Avril Vincent has been to the theater camp at Whisper Cove before.

In SECRETS SO DEEP, author Ginny Myers Sain takes readers into the world of acting, writing, and creative genius all while the characters try to stay alive. So starts this young adult murder mystery wrapped inside a theatrical performance surrounded by the paranormal. They tore loose somehow and came down like rain.” “I was five years old the night stars fell from the sky.

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