JANE WAS HERE

A mysterious young woman called Jane appears in a small New England town. She claims a fragmentary memory of growing up in this place, yet she has never been here before in her life. Searching for an explanation, she arrives at the unthinkable: that she is somehow connected to a beautiful girl who disappeared from the town in 1853. Is she recalling a past life? Jane becomes convinced of it. As she presses onward to find out what happened in this town over 150 years ago, strange and alarming things begin happening to some of the town’s inhabitants. A thunderhead of karmic justice gathers over the village as Jane’s memories reawaken piece by piece. They carry her back in time to a long-buried secret, while the townspeople hurtle forward to a horrific event when past and present fatally collide.

“Sarah Kernochan’s second novel, Jane Was Here, has an insane premise — that the presence of one young woman can literally cause the past and the future to collide in real time and space. How Kernochan, the writer of the film ‘What Lies Beneath,’ pulls it off, and she does, is nothing short of magic. See Jane break the world wide open.” Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Second Nature, a Love Story

“An eerie story that not only kept me guessing but kept me up at night. Sarah Kernochan delivers a quirky tale with the perfect amount of creepiness, intrigue, and small town New England politics. A perfect choice for book clubs.” Brunonia Barry, author of The Lace Reader and Map of True Places