From the lost ghost story Mary Rose by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie, The Island Between Tides is a Gothic bedtime horror for sleepless nights.
Northern BC, 1982. Six-year-old Lily vanishes. For two days and nights, no one can find the cheery girl who’d strayed onto a remote tidal island. Until she’s found at the exact spot she was last seen with no memory of being away. Unharmed but not unaltered.
The changes start gradually. Lily develops prodigious musical abilities, sensing the world through a mysterious melody only she can hear. But she can’t shake her obsession with this island she can’t remember, and that her family won’t discuss. At 20, the melody leads her back to it, and when she disappears again, this time it’s for good.
Or so everyone believed.
Decades later, Lily reappears. But, impossibly, she looks just as she did the day she vanished. To her, no time passed at all. Still a young woman, the rest of the world has aged around her, her family now whittled down to her elderly father, middle-aged sister, and the troubled son she’d left as an infant.
Confused, Lily must piece together the time that has passed, and the mystery that led to her disappearance. Her now-grown son Jared is haunted by the same melody and tormented by forces that no one else has understood – until now. Taunted and pursued, they race to unravel the secrets of the island and the souls it has captured before it’s too late