Beneath the Mists
On a fog-shrouded Swedish archipelago, a young girl confronts an ancient supernatural threat in this breathtaking fantasy thriller from the eerie imaginations of Camilla Sten and Viveca Sten.
Whatever deadly mysteries swirl in the mist, it’s only the beginning.
An unnatural fog, lingering for weeks, has settled over the Stockholm archipelago, home to twelve-year-old Tuva. No one can explain it. Tuva, attuned to the mysteries of the sea, has her suspicions.
When her classmate and his mother nearly drown in the damp, choking fog, Tuva seeks answers about its supernatural nature. And the truth she uncovers is more wondrous―and sinister―than she could have imagined.
All the while, a hauntingly familiar voice calls for Tuva, pulling at the ties that bind her to the supernatural world, trying to draw her in. But are the powers that Tuva possesses enough to save the world from this true evil lingering in its midst?
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Camilla Sten
Swedish author Camilla Sten writes the kind of stories where isolation is rarely peaceful. Abandoned places, buried secrets, fractured relationships, and the uneasy suspicion that something is waiting just beyond sight have become recurring elements in her fiction, which moves between psychological suspense, horror, crime, and dark young adult fantasy.
Born in Sweden in 1992, Sten knew from an early age that she wanted to write. As a teenager, she set herself a deceptively simple challenge: write one page every day for a year. The result was her first attempt at a novel and the beginning of a habit that would eventually become a career. Books were already part of family life. Her mother, bestselling crime novelist Viveca Sten, became both an early reader and an important creative sounding board, and mother and daughter later collaborated on several novels for younger readers.
The Whispering Sea Mysteries
The sea around the Stockholm archipelago holds more than cold water and shifting tides. In The Whispering Sea Mysteries, Camilla Sten and Viveca Sten turn the islands of Sweden into a place where old legends feel dangerously close to the surface and the natural world seems to be hiding secrets of its own.
At the center of the series is twelve-year-old Tuva, a girl whose connection to the sea draws her into mysteries that cannot be explained by ordinary logic. Disappearances, strange phenomena, and unsettling encounters gradually reveal a supernatural world woven into the familiar landscape of islands, forests, fog, and open water. What begins as curiosity soon becomes something far more personal as Tuva discovers that she may have a place in these mysteries herself.
The Whispering Sea Mysteries consists of two books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
