Chanda Stafford

When Darkness Falls Chanda Stafford

Welcome to Misery Bay, a quiet place, if you don't count the horrific monsters, the strange disappearances, or the odd barbed wire fence surrounding the town's lighthouse. Seventeen-year-old Austen Gillet can't wait to graduate and get out of her small town. But when she finds her dad's car abandoned on the side of the road with a dead woman inside, her world screeches to a halt. When Ezra, an enigmatic newcomer, arrives in town, Austen enlists his help to find her dad. Little does she know that Ezra has secrets of his own, and he's not about to let anyone get in his way. However, Ezra's secrets pale in comparison to those hiding deep in Misery Bay's woods, in a place protected by Ian, the mysterious lighthouse keeper. After stumbling through a portal to another world and barely escaping with her life, Austen has to figure out who she can trust and who she can't, before she disappears, too. Permanently.