The Line Tender

Wherever the sharks led, Lucy Everharts marine-biologist mother was sure to follow. In fact, she was on a boat far off the coast of Massachusetts, collecting shark data when she died suddenly. Lucy was seven. Since then Lucy and her father have kept their heads above water - thanks in large part to a few close friends and neighbours. But June of her twelfth summer brings more than the end of school and a heat wave to sleepy Rockport. On one steamy day, the tide brings a great white - and then another tragedy, cutting short a friendship everyone insists was meaningful but no one can tell Lucy what it all meant. To survive the fresh wave of grief, Lucy must grab the line that connects her depressed father, a stubborn fisherman, and a curious old widower to her mothers unfinished research on the Great Whites return to Cape Cod. If Lucy can find a way to help this unlikely quartet follow the sharks her mother loved, shell finally be able to look beyond what shes lost and toward whats left to be discovered. Funny, poignant, and deeply moving, The Line Tender is a story of natures enduring mystery and the people willing to seek meaning and connection within it.