Cadence Sinclair Eastman

Cadence Sinclair Eastman is the main character and narrator of the novel. She is the only daughter of Penny Sinclair Eastman and the oldest granddaughter of Harris and Tipper Sinclair. Cadence suffers with debilitating migraine headaches which she believes were caused by a traumatic head injury she suffered during the summer she was fifteen while she was vacationing on her grandparents’ private island. Cadence, however, does not remember what caused her brain injury and her family will not tell her the specifics of her accident. Much of the novel covers the time that Cadence spends on the island during the summer that she is seventeen as she tries to remember what happened to her. After nearly four weeks on the island Cadence — with the help of Johnny, Gat, and Mirren who have returned from the dead — is able to remember their plan to set fire to...