The lanterns are lit. The truth is still buried.

Summer 2007. Lyra Reynolds came to Willows Rise looking for her mother's story. Now she's standing in the dark of the admin building, and the one woman who knows exactly who she is has just opened her mouth to answer.

Whatever comes next, it won't be simple. The storm may be over, but nothing at camp is settled. Records have gone missing. Something small and very old has been found in the woods. Someone in the office is being far too helpful. And every adult Lyra trusts seems to be keeping one more thing back, just for now, just until they're sure.

Lyra has spent one summer learning to listen. She's learned that a camp cook can say "I love you" with a plate of food and a silence. She's learned that loud people are often hiding something quiet. She's learned that her own family has been lying for decades, usually out of love, and usually badly. What she hasn't learned is how to stop being afraid of what she'll find.

With Kayleigh at her side, Emily on the phone, and a bunkhouse of campers who see far more than anyone gives them credit for, Lyra follows the trail through old photographs, sealed letters, quiet kitchens and half-finished sentences. Every answer opens a door. Every door has a name behind it. And some of those names belong to people who were never supposed to be found.

Echoes of Willows Rise is the second half of the Willows Rise mystery: a story about grief, secrets, found family, and the strange stubborn ways people go on after they lose someone. It's also about pillow fights, bad muffins, a loved boot, and the kind of humour that shows up exactly when you need it most.

Book Three of The Lightkeepers series. Best read after Secrets of Willows Rise.

Content note: this book deals with the loss of children, a drowning, and the quiet damage that secrets do. None of it is graphic.

Hope you like mysteries. Book Four is going to be weirder.

Sarah King is an Autistic artist, musician and writer from Alberta, Canada. She writes stories about grief, family secrets, found family and the places where people heal, usually with a little too much sarcasm and a lot of heart.She is the author of the Lightkeepers series, which includes Beyond Where Lanterns Rise, Secrets of Willows Rise and Echoes of Willows Rise, as well as the novels Light of Winter's Heart and Felicity's Last Goodbye, and the Destiny Theory series. She has also published cookbooks, including Dinner by the Minute.Outside of writing, Sarah is a composer registered with SOCAN, with two albums of original music, and a visual artist who paints in acrylics. She plays violin, piano and cello, and she has worked in film and television for more than twenty-five years. She streams on Twitch as totorosnook.Sarah publishes through her imprint, Sakura Studios®. Learn more at sarahking.ca and sakurastudios.ca.