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“Yeah. Just tired.” Peter took a step with Kai, and another. Kai felt Peter getting stronger by the second.
Kai wanted to say something, about how he was proud of Peter, or something else an adult would say. Instead, he just walked next to his twin and said, “Do you think Dad will let us stop for hot dogs on the way home?”
Peter shoved Kai into a bush. After Kai picked himself out of the branches, he saw Peter running, slowly and lopsidedly, to the beach.
Laughing, Kai ran after him. The sun shone on the sand, and on the sea, as the waves pulled at the shore and the shore gave the water a place to rest. It was a beautiful day.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Writing a book is like casting a spell, or like breaking a seal: You can’t do it alone. I know I can’t. I’d like to thank my agent, Lauren Abramo, for giving my story its first polish, and for finding the best home for it. Thank you to my wonderful editor, Mekisha Telfer, who took what was in my head, polished it, and helped me put it to paper. Thank you Jo Rioux, for the hauntingly beautiful cover art, and Veronica Mang, for the design. Also, thank you to my copyeditors. I hope you know the miracles you work.
I would also like to thank Mike Thayer and Benjamin Hewett, for workshopping this book with me, as well as Madeleine Dresden, Sarah Allen, and the rest of Writing Group of Wonders. This story wouldn’t have reached its potential without your feedback.
As this is a book about family, special thanks goes to my family. My husband, Spencer, for listening to me talk out the plot and the writing snags I encountered, and my sister Grace, for being one of my first readers, as always. Thanks to my parents and siblings, for being the template for the Syracuse family: loving, united, and willing to help each other with their problems. And thanks to my many-greats-grandmother Rebecca Nurse. I found it impossible to mention Salem without honoring her.
And finally, thank you to the state of Massachusetts. There is a magic in that land and its sea that inspired my imagination and, I believe, will never cease to do so.
ALSO BY ALLISON K. HYMAS
The Explorer’s Code
Under Locker and Key
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Allison K. Hymas was born in Utah on the anniversary of the day Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She was raised in Virginia and Pennsylvania and enjoyed spending time in the mountains and forests. The author of Secrets of Stone and Sea and The Explorer’s Code, Allison currently lives in Provo, Utah, where she teaches writing, visits national parks, and runs very long distances for fun.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
“Rise, Ocean,”
Chapter 1. Welcome to Seaspire
Chapter 2. A Hot Dog by The Sea
Chapter 3. Rise, Ocean
Chapter 4. Something Wicked
Chapter 5. Plates and Plato
Chapter 6. Solving The Pattern
Chapter 7. Storm Tracking
Chapter 8. Dogtown
Chapter 9. Seven Seals
Chapter 10. A Dangerous Sea
Chapter 11. What Swims Below
Chapter 12. The Charles Haskell
Chapter 13. A Midnight Snack
Chapter 14. Fire in The Hole
Chapter 15. Another Viewpoint
Chapter 16. Welcome to Salem
Chapter 17. Rest in Peace
Chapter 18. Choose Right, Choose Wrong, Choose Nothing
Chapter 19. Lost
Chapter 20. Screams in The Wood
Chapter 21. Water Under The Bridge
Chapter 22. Splitting Up
Chapter 23. Swamp Creatures
Chapter 24. Wisps and Lights
Chapter 25. Pieces Come Together
Chapter 26. The Seventh Seal
Chapter 27. Peace or Truth
Chapter 28. A Pattern of Water
Chapter 29. The Broken Seal
Chapter 30. The Pattern of Land
Chapter 31. Stone and Sea
Acknowledgments
Also by Allison K. Hymas
About the Author
Copyright
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