Whidbey Island: A Haunting Mystery

Olivia Childers embarks on a harrowing journey when she inherits a dilapidated cabin on Puget Sound’s Whidbey Island. While restoring the cabin, her path takes an unexpected turn as she stumbles across family secrets that force her to face her inner demons. Lurking in the shadows is a grief-stricken ghost who thinks she's still alive and is perpetually reliving a regretful past. Reality becomes muddy for Olivia as Whidbey Island's dark history surfaces and long-forgotten questions find answers in secret places only the dead know. In a world where solitude is everywhere and nowhere, the tortured souls on this journey must find a way out of cages of their own making. Their choices and ultimate decisions interweave, resonating beyond the boundaries of time and death. Whidbey Island explores the ultimate question: Is reality what it seems?

About the Author

CAROL SPEAKER was born and raised in Spokane, WA and lived in the Puget Sound for ten years while writing Whidbey Island. Whidbey Island speaks to a period in her life when she struggled with a failing marriage. Every detail of the novel reflects some aspect of the complexity of being a wife and mother through debilitating depression. It is a candid and relatable account of one woman's role in modern society.

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