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Sherry Austin is the author of Mariah of the Spirits and the winner of two literary fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council. She lives in Flat Rock, North Carolina.

A woman is confronted with an enigmatic figure from her past in this Southern Gothic thriller of unresolved friendship and unsettling memories. The coincidental sighting of someone resembling a long-lost childhood acquaintance sets off a flood of memories about their strange experience. She hopes she'll at last find the answer to the question that has stuck with her all the years since: Whatever became of the unforgettable Catherine Wiley? Set against the live-oak splendor of the South Carolina low country and the dark glamour of Myrtle Beach in the 1950s, this tale of nostalgia, fear, and hope twists like a leaf in the wind.