Published in 1998. Pages have yellowed, but is still very readable. Slightly shelf worn. Spine is creased, but binding is strong. Price written in pencil on a non-essential page. No other markings. No dog ears. Sticker residue on the back cover.
Melody Logan is still devastated by her father’s sudden death when she comes home from school to find her flighty mother gaily packing suitcases. They are to head for Cape Cod, to visit her father’s family – the family he has never spoken about. Melody is excited at the prospect of getting to know her relatives, but she has barely arrived there when her mother stuns her with the news that Melody is to stay on the Cape while she continues on the road. Marooned among virtual strangers, Melody feels utterly alone. But on her first visit to her tyrannical grandparents, it is her cousin, Cary, who finally begins to reveal the truth about Melody’s parents – a sad, shocking story of defiant love that only deepens her confusion. Yet Melody knows nothing of the dark deceptions that will soon surface… or of the devastating betrayals she will face before she glimpses the faint, beckoning lights of a safe harbour…