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The Glimmer in the Cypress
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- FormatePub
- ISBN8233039966
- EAN9798233039966
- Date de parution10/03/2026
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- ÉditeurLinda Balsamo
Résumé
Twelve-year-old Caleb knows the rule by heart: never go past the twisted cypress after dark. His grandmother has repeated it so many times it's practically carved into his bones. His younger sister Nora heard it before she could even talk. The swamp beyond that ancient, deformed tree is off limits. Always. No exceptions. For years, they've obeyed. They've stayed on the safe side, played in the yard, listened to the swamp's nighttime whispers from the comfort of their beds.
They've laughed at the local legends about a trapper's ghost wandering the bayou with a lantern that never runs out of oil. Just stories. Just folklore. Nothing to fear. But then the light appears. It's faint at first-a warm, golden glimmer deep in the cypress grove, flickering on a moonless night when no one should be out there. Caleb spots it from his bedroom window. Nora sees it too. And in that moment, the stories stop feeling like stories.
The next day, a stranger shows up at their grandmother's door. He's a journalist with muddy boots and a camera around his neck, asking questions about the swamp, about the light, about things their grandmother refuses to discuss. She sends him away, her face tight with something the kids have never seen before: fear. Real, honest fear. That's when Caleb and Nora know they have to go. Past the twisted cypress.
Into the forbidden swamp. Following the glimmer that seems to want them to follow. What they find isn't a ghost. It isn't a trapper's lantern or a trick of the light. It's something older, something beautiful, something their grandmother has been protecting for over fifty years. A secret that explains the whispers, the lights, and the strange pull the swamp has always had on their family. But they aren't the only ones who found it.
The journalist is still out there, searching, determined to expose the truth to the world. And now Caleb and Nora face an impossible choice: reveal the glimmer and let the world take it, or become the next keepers of a secret older than memory. Some mysteries aren't meant to be solved. They're meant to be kept.
They've laughed at the local legends about a trapper's ghost wandering the bayou with a lantern that never runs out of oil. Just stories. Just folklore. Nothing to fear. But then the light appears. It's faint at first-a warm, golden glimmer deep in the cypress grove, flickering on a moonless night when no one should be out there. Caleb spots it from his bedroom window. Nora sees it too. And in that moment, the stories stop feeling like stories.
The next day, a stranger shows up at their grandmother's door. He's a journalist with muddy boots and a camera around his neck, asking questions about the swamp, about the light, about things their grandmother refuses to discuss. She sends him away, her face tight with something the kids have never seen before: fear. Real, honest fear. That's when Caleb and Nora know they have to go. Past the twisted cypress.
Into the forbidden swamp. Following the glimmer that seems to want them to follow. What they find isn't a ghost. It isn't a trapper's lantern or a trick of the light. It's something older, something beautiful, something their grandmother has been protecting for over fifty years. A secret that explains the whispers, the lights, and the strange pull the swamp has always had on their family. But they aren't the only ones who found it.
The journalist is still out there, searching, determined to expose the truth to the world. And now Caleb and Nora face an impossible choice: reveal the glimmer and let the world take it, or become the next keepers of a secret older than memory. Some mysteries aren't meant to be solved. They're meant to be kept.