in which all the victims are found grinning from ear to ear.Īs Vanessa and Simon probe further into the connections between Justine''s death and the sudden rash of creepy drownings, Vanessa uncovers a secret that threatens her new romance, and that will change her life forever.

All of Winter Harbor is abuzz with anxiety when another body washes ashore, and panic sets in when the small town becomes home to a string of fatal, water-related accidents. Soon it''s not just Vanessa who is afraid. After discovering that Justine never applied to colleges, and that she was secretly in a relationship with longtime family friend Caleb Carmichael, Vanessa returns to Winter Harbor to seek some answers.īut when Vanessa learns that Caleb has been missing since Justine''s death, she and Caleb''s older brother, Simon, join forces to try to find him, and in the process, their childhood friendship blossoms into something more. A year after the events that killed her sister and turned her into a siren, Vanessa is desperately trying to put her family back together and reclaim a normal life. She lives with her husband and shih tzu in a seaside town on eastern Long Island, where she does her best to avoid all creatures of the deep. The sea is calling, but the reluctant siren will do anything not to answer. Burns, writes the Merits of Mischief series. Vanessa''s parents want to work through the tragedy by returning to their everyday lives back in Boston, but Vanessa can''t help feeling that her sister''s death was more than an accident. Tricia Rayburn is the author of several novels for teens and ’tweens, including the Maggie Bean books, Ruby’s Slippers, and the Siren trilogy. That is until Justine goes cliff diving one night near the family''s vacation house in Winter Harbor, Maine, and her lifeless body washes up on shore the next day. Seventeen-year-old Vanessa Sands is afraid of everything-the dark, heights, the ocean-but her fearless older sister, Justine, has always been there to coach her through every challenge.

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