Some passengers never left the ship... When eleven-year-old Ethan moves with his family to Hollow Beach, a small coastal village in Maine, he expects nothing but boring days and foggy mornings. Then he sees the shipwreck. A massive rusted vessel sits stranded on the rocks, battered by waves for a hundred years. The locals call her L'Esperance, The Hope. They say she was a French ship carrying orphans to America in 1923. They say all the children were saved. They say never to go near the wreck. But Ethan can't stay away. Something is calling him from inside those rusted walls. And when he finally climbs aboard, he discovers the truth the village has been hiding for a century. Not all the children were saved. Through haunting dreams and messages scratched in French on the ship's walls, Ethan connects with Henri, a boy who died in 1923, trapped in the darkness with eleven other children. Henri has been waiting a hundred years for someone to hear his story. For someone to uncover the terrible truth. Who closed the door that night? Why did the village stay silent? And can Ethan finally set the lost children free? A gripping tale of mystery, courage, and the voices that refuse to be forgotten. Book 1 in The Lost Children Mysteries series. Recommended for ages 8-12.