Last True Poets of the Sea

Violet Larkin grew up on a family legend. When the ship Lyric went down off the coast of Maine, her great-great-great-grandmother Fidelia swam to shore and fell in love. She then founded the town of Lyric, where Violet and her younger brother, Sam, spent every childhood summer.

Now the family luck looks more like a run of wrecks. Violet, who is tall, funny and musical, keeps partying with the wrong people. Then Sam, brilliant and sensitive, attempts to take his own life on a summer day.

With Sam in treatment, Violet is sent back to Lyric. She is haunted by the one thing the family never had: the wreck of the ship itself, which she and Sam once dreamed of finding. Wanting to make amends, she sets out to locate it, though it has lain underwater for over a century.

Her partner in the search is Liv Stone, a local amateur historian with sharp intelligence and guarded gray eyes. Violet is drawn to her in a way that is new and thrilling. Whether or not the ship turns up, the search may be the first step toward something like survival.