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When Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship´s comforts and possibilities seem infinite. But when they all go ashore in beautiful Central America, a series of minor mishaps lead the families further from the ship´s safety.

One minute the children are there, and the next they´re gone.

What follows is a heart-racing story told from the perspectives of the adults and the children, as the distraught parents - now turning on one another and blaming themselves - try to recover their children and their shattered lives.

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Readers in search of the summer´s nail-biting, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller to take to the beach - the hunt is over... chilling and smart The Times

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Meloy, Maile
Maile Meloy is the author of the novels Liars and Saints (which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and chosen for the Richard and Judy book club) and A Family Daughter, the short-story collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, and the award-winning Apothecary trilogy for young readers. She has received the PEN/Malamud Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was chosen as one of Granta´s Best Young American Novelists. She lives in Los Angeles.

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