Director Kelly Coffey originally planned for "The Book" to be Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones." Having no luck pursuing the rights or contacting the author for permission, she conceived an original book expressly for the film. Titled THE WHISPERING PINES, the fictional book is about the mysterious disappearance of two preteen sisters. When one of the children returns, she has no memory of what happened to her sister and where she might be.