Joanna Loring is originally from England but now resides in Vista, California. Joanna has a master's degree in history and taught creative writing for several years. When she is not writing, Joanna manages a small avocado farm with her husband.
On the storm-lashed shores of SandIsle, a legacy of secrets is about to break. When Maggie’s twins vanish into the island’s dark heart, a desperate group of women must confront the unthinkable. From a cryptic treehouse to the hollows of a subterranean hell, they track a monster born of a forbidden ritual. As the “Shadow Book” reveals its final, bloody truth, the lines between medicine and magic blur. On SandIsle, some spirits never leave – and some debts are paid in blood.
Grace believed that it was freedom on the other side of the border. Rather, she and her family are thrown into the world of lies, tunnels, and dead ends, and criminals who consider desperation to be money.
