SuitabookFamily secrecy and belonging
Danni investigates her mother’s disappearance and discovers previously unknown relatives and family history.
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Lu Hersey - Author
A fast-moving supernatural mystery about a teenager searching for her missing mother, then uncovering concealed family history and a strange inheritance. It offers suspense, folklore, friendship and a seaside setting, with the pace reportedly slowing after the opening.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA fast-moving supernatural mystery about a teenager searching for her missing mother, then uncovering concealed family history and a strange inheritance. It offers suspense, folklore, friendship and a seaside setting, with the pace reportedly slowing after the opening.
Danni investigates her mother’s disappearance and discovers previously unknown relatives and family history.
Danni discovers unusual abilities and a connection to Celtic or selkie-related folklore while trying to help her family.
The book includes a parent’s disappearance, hospitalisation or amnesia, frightening uncertainty, a reported killer, threatening or hostile people, social rejection, family separation, supernatural danger and a subtle romantic thread.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.
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