But she is unprepared for the ways it will illuminate terrifying mysteries within her own past, and in the process, irrevocably change her life. But, slowly, Alice comes to the realization that Janie might indeed be telling a strange truth.Īlice knows the investigation may endanger her already shaky professional reputation, and as a woman in a field dominated by men she has no room for mistakes. Alice delves into these stories, at first believing they're no more than the product of the girl's vast imagination. But what is disturbing are the stories she tells: that her name was once Violet, she grew up in Kansas decades earlier, and she drowned at age nineteen. Seven-year-old Janie O'Daire is a mathematical genius, which is surprising. A trained psychologist, Alice believes mysteries of the mind can be unlocked scientifically, but now her views are about to be challenged by one curious child. There, she expects to do nothing more difficult than administer IQ tests to a group of rural schoolchildren. In 1925, Alice Lind steps off a train in the rain-soaked coastal hamlet of Gordon Bay, Oregon. There, she begins a journey causing her to question everything she believes about life, death, memories, and reincarnation.

A young child psychologist steps off a train, her destination a foggy seaside town.

Kirkus ’s A Savory Selection of Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read in October This novel is engaging, gripping, and features an extraordinary main character in Alice, a woman ahead of her time, intent on independence. From the author of The Uninvited comes a haunting historical novel with a compelling mystery at its core. Yesternight is a story that is unassumingly haunting.

Yesternight by Cat Winters