FINALIST in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2016 'A superbly plotted fantasy. A finalist and highly recommended.' The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Absence - Whispers and Shadow is the first of a two part epic paranormal fantasy. In a superstitious world of ghosts and spirit demons, where the membrane between the living and the dead runs thin; Della hides in full view. She has a secret called Absence she doesn't dare reveal; for to do so would risk being branded a witch. When an act of curiosity burdens her with shadow, she is thrust onto a dangerous path that will change her forever. Can she trust the boy whose dead sister haunts the lake? Or the uncompromising exorcist whose order she spent most of her life running from?

Della's kidnappers are taking her deeper into the Wilderness and the shadow inside her is growing bolder. Kye and Ormis are in pursuit, but the horrors of the Eastland are determined to keep them apart. Meanwhile a new threat to Irongate forces Kass Riole to seek a solution in the dungeons of the Caliste. Izle Rohn waits for Della and The Reader waits for him.