Finding a Missing Child in The Gates of Evangeline

Journalist Charlotte “Charlie” Cates’s son has recently died and while struggling to overcome her grief has dreams about children in danger who need her help. When a little boy appears in one of her dreams and at the same time Charlie is offered the chance to interview the Deveau Family whose son went missing thirty years earlier, she decides the little boy in her dream must be their missing child.

The Deveaus are a rich and powerful family who treasure their privacy especially after the high profile disappearance of their son, but Charlie has the unique opportunity to interview them for a book supposedly about their family history and not the boy’s disappearance. She travels to Louisiana only to discover a family with secrets they are unwilling to reveal. Charlie is determined to help the little boy in her dreams but helping him might kill her in The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young. This thriller is Young’s first novel.