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August 2016
On Sale: August 16, 2016
ISBN: 1101983981
EAN: 9781101983980
Kindle: B00L9AXQEC
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Contemporary
An adventurous debut novel that cross cuts between a competitive college swimmerβs harrowing days in the Rocky Mountains after a major airline disaster and her recovery supported by the two men who love herβonly one of whom knows what really happened in the wilderness.
Nineteen-year-old Avery Delacorte loves the water. Growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, she took swim lessons at her community pool and captained the local team; in high school, she raced across bays and sprawling North American lakes. Now a sophomore on her universityβs nationally ranked team, she struggles under the weight of new expectations but life is otherwise pretty good. Perfect, really.
That all changes when Averyβs red-eye home for Thanksgiving makes a ditch landing in a mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies. She is one of only five survivors, which includes three little boys and Colin Shea, who happens to be her teammate. Colin is also the only person in Averyβs college life who challenged her to swim her own events, to be her own personβsomething she refused to do. Instead sheβs avoided him since the first day of freshman year. But now, faced with sub-zero temperatures, minimal supplies, and the dangers of a forbidding nowhere, Avery and Colin must rely on each other in ways they never couldβve imagined.
In the wilderness, the concept of survival is clear-cut. Simple. In the real world, itβs anything but.
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