Ellen Wittlinger
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Publisher
Merit Press, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In the Cape Cod village of Provincetown, Massachusetts, seventeen-year-old Lorna is swept out to sea, leaving her three best friends to struggle to come to terms with their missing leader and with the secrets each endeavors to hide.
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