Whisper hollow
(Book)

"One morning in Verra, West Virginia, the young Myrthen Bergmann plays a tug-of-war game that results in her twin sister's death. Unable to accept her own guilt, Myrthen isolates herself and begins a twisted, haunted life dedicated to God. Meanwhile, her neighbor Alta Krol longs to be an artist even as her days are taken up caring for her widowed father and siblings. Everything changes when Myrthen marries the man Alta loves. Fourteen years later, when a teenaged Lidia gives birth to Gabriel, a precocious child who starts telling eerily prescient stories that hint at Verra's long-buried secrets, it's not long before the townspeople begin to suspect that the boy harbors evil spirits--an irresistible state of affair for Myrthen and her obsession with salvation." -- From cover flap.