Meanwhile, Roya is vacationing on a remote island when she makes a chilling discovery. A human skeleton—and near it, a rusty iron key. Can the mysterious girl Roya glimpsed on the bluffs help her piece together some answers? Or will she drag her down into the dark undercurrents flowing beneath them?
This sweeping sequel to When We Vanished takes the reader on a journey through time and place, from a 1970s island commune to a present-day corporate apple orchard, as it explores the question of just how far we’ll go to help the people we love.
Alanna Peterson graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with degrees in molecular biology and nutritional science. When We Vanished, her award-winning debut novel, has a growing fanbase of readers all over the world. While researching its sequel, Where Shadows Grow, she picked apples in the scorching heat, marched twelve miles in solidarity with farmworkers near the U.S.-Canada border, sipped some excellent horchata in Sunnyside, and dipped her toes into the Pacific Ocean at various locations along the West Coast. She is a longtime resident of South Seattle, where she tries to keep up on her overgrown garden and spends a lot of time cooking and baking with her family.