Our Last Echoes Author:Kate Alice Marshall In 1973, the thirty-one residents of Bitter Rock disappeared. In 2003, so did my mother. Now, I've come to Bitter Rock to find out what happened to her -- and to me. Because Bitter Rock has many ghosts. And I might be one of them. — Sophia's earliest memory is of drowning. She remembers the darkness of the water and the briny taste... more » as it filled her throat, the sensation of going under. She remembers hands pulling her back to safety, but that memory is impossible -- she's never been to the ocean.
But then Sophia gets a mysterious call about an island names Bitter Rock, and learns that she and her mother were there fifteen years ago -- and her mother never returned. The hunt for answers lures her to Bitter Rock, but the more she uncovers, the clearer it is that her mother is just one in a chain of disappearances.
People have been vanishing from Bitter Rock for decades, leaving only their ghostly echoes behind. Sophia is the only one who can break the cycle -- or risk becoming nothing more than another echo haunting the island.« less