A lush work of suspense viewed through the refracted lens of childhood memory.

A second novel by the acclaimed author of Angels in the Morning.

At the pivotal age of ten, Helen, along with her Ileana and their parents leave home in Paris to spend a summer on a Mediterranean island - an island full of exotic beauty, but marred by a series of mysterious tragedies. At once ingenuous and observant, Helen recounts from the sidelines the eerie events that ultimately lead to her sister's disappearance.

Sasha Troyan is the author of Angels in the Morning (Permanent Press). She lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband and two sons.

Praise for Angels in the Morning:

"A work of real grace and beauty, poised delicately between light shed by its narrator's innocent eye and the encroaching darkness of adult experience."
–James Lasdun

"A vivid, passionate novel, urgently imagined, richly peopled, psychologically acute and thoroughly suspenseful. But above all a novel of unusual, shimmering beauty, one in which every sentence is a delight. This splendid debut is a wonderful treat for readers."
–Margot Livesey

"Sasha Troyan casts a strange, beautiful spell, writing with an elegant simplicity that keeps the verdant French countryside ever before the reader's eyes. A moving story of a summer of change in the life of a family who are, engagingly, both familiar and exotic."
–Alice Eliot Dark

"Troyan's fine debut features a spunky ten-year-old forced to grow up before her time. The charm and innocence of the storytelling makes a substantial contribution to a moving, beautifully crafted novel."
–Kirkus Reviews