Publisher Description
Set in the Cape Cod village of Provincetown, Massachusetts, this is the story about 17-year-old Jackie's struggle to overcome her grief and confusion after her best friend is carried out to sea during a storm. Lorna had been the dynamic leader of a tight-knit group of four friends - Jackie, Lucas and Finn - and her disappearance changes the dynamics between the surviving three. Jackie is still hiding her feelings for Finn, who had been Lorna's boyfriend, and Lucas has withdrawn to the point where Jackie wonders if he is keeping a secret even larger than her own. Meanwhile the future looms, and Jackie fears leaving the only life she has known.
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About Ellen Wittlinger
Ellen Wittlinger is the critically acclaimed author of the teen novels Heart on My Sleeve, The Long Night of Leo and Bree, Razzle, What’s in a Name, and Hard Love, which was an American Library Association Michael L. Printz Honor Book, a Lambda Literary Award winner, and a Booklist Editors’ Choice. She has a bachelor’s degree from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, and an MFA from the University of Iowa. A former children’s librarian, she lives with her husband in Swampscott, Massachusetts.
About Elizabeth Cottle
Elizabeth Cottle
is an actress, singer, and theater director based in Northwest Ohio. She earned
a BFA in communication arts and musical theater from Ohio Northern University,
where she received an Irene Ryan Nomination. She is a veteran of more than
thirty community theater productions and was recognized for Excellence in
Acting by the Ohio Community Theatre Association. In addition to her theater
background, Cottle has a wide variety of performing experience, from serving
as lead vocalist with a jazz orchestra, to filming commercials, to doing improvised sketch comedy.