“Who We Were in the Dark” by Jessica Taylor

Who We Were In The Dark Is The Marvelously Enigmatic and Creepy Beach Read We've Been Looking For

There's nothing like a good summer thriller -- especially one that involves a group of teens with a weird dynamic that goes back years and has a historically creepy setting to boot.

California's Donner Lake is best known of course for bearing its name of the infamous Donner Party, which found itself doing "unspeakable acts" to survive after getting lost in the mountains while journeying West. For siblings Nora and Wesley, the central characters in Jessica Taylor’s Who We Were In The Dark, Donner Lake was also an escape and respite from their unstable home lives after their father suddenly reappears in their lives.