*Life can slide out of control when you least expect it.* Of his group of friends, Zach is the only one yet to find his kinky-ever-after. The contract killer, Harlequin, is still on the loose, Zach's dad is ill, a result of the stress caused by knowing the family amusement park is being used as an
Shelter
โ Scribed by Frances Greenslade
- Publisher
- Random House of Canada;Free Press
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A spellbinding and wise coming-of-age story from New Face of Fiction Frances Greenslade, Shelter draws readers into the precarious world of two young sisters in search of their mother, and brings to life a breathtaking BC landscape.
Maggie is a born worrier who really believes that trouble comes in threes and that threats to her family's cozy but fragile life in Duchess Creek are never far. For reasons she doesn't understand, her father favours her over her carefree older sister, Jenny, and takes her on outings to the bush where he shows her how to build shelters using leaves, sticks and fir boughs. Just in case. When he is killed in a logging accident, Maggie thinks her worst fear has come true, but her father's death is only the first blow in the destruction of her family. Soon her mother, Irene, the one Maggie has never worried about, abruptly drops off her girls in Williams Lake to billet with the gloomy Bea Edwards and her wheelchair-bound husband,...
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