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Description
On a creepy island where everyone has a
strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to
learn the truth about her son’s death—but finds herself pulled deeper
and deeper into the bizarrely insular community and their complicated
rules…
Clifford Island.
When Willow Stone finds these words written on the floor of her
deceased son’s bedroom, she’s perplexed. She’s never heard of it before,
but soon learns it’s a tiny island off Wisconsin’s Door County
peninsula, 200 miles from Willow’s home. Why would her son write this on his floor? Determined to find answers, Willow sets out for the island.
After a few days on Clifford, Willow realizes: This place is not
normal. Everyone seems to be stuck in a particular day in 1994: They
wear outdated clothing, avoid modern technology, and, perhaps most
mystifyingly, watch the OJ Simpson car chase every evening. When she
asks questions, people are evasive, but she learns one thing: Close your
curtains at night.
High schooler Lily Becker has lived on
Clifford her entire life, and she is sick of the island’s twisted
mythology and adhering to the rules. She’s been to the mainland, and
everyone is normal there, so why is Clifford so weird? Lily is
determined to prove that the islanders’ beliefs are a sham. But are
they?
Five weeks after Willow arrives on the island, she
disappears. Willow’s brother, Harper, comes to Clifford searching for
his sister, and when he learns the truth—that this island is far more
sinister than anyone could have imagined—he is determined to blow the
whole thing open.
If he can get out alive....