Siren (36 page)
Authors: Tricia Rayburn
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Juvenile Fiction, #Fantasy & Magic, #Horror & Ghost Stories, #Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12), #Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction, #United States, #Family, #People & Places, #Supernatural, #Social Issues, #Siblings, #Horror, #Ghost Stories (Young Adult), #Family - Siblings, #Sisters, #Interpersonal Relations, #Visionary & Metaphysical, #Maine, #Sirens (Mythology)
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was pretending our family would be okay, even though we'd lost Justine. I was pretending that sitting on this bench with Simon was a perfectly acceptable thing to do, and eventually, when we were
really
alone together and not just alone together on a public bench with my parents a few yards away, I would pretend that that was acceptable, too. I was pretending I was still me. I was pretending I was still boring, ordinary Vanessa Sands instead of accepting who--and what--I really was.
Because after jumping off Chione Cliffs and facing my greatest fear, I was still scared. My body hasn't been the same since that night, and I was scared of what it now needed to function. I was scared of what Simon and I had done three weeks before, and what that might mean now.
Most of all, I was scared I'd lose him if he knew the truth.
I placed the cup of hot chocolate on the bench between us, reached into my coat pocket, and pulled out a small packet of white powder.
"Vitamin supplement," I said, pretending for a few minutes more as I watched the salt fall into the hot chocolate like rain on an iceless harbor. "It helps me breathe."
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First published by Egmont USA, 2010
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Copyright © Tricia Rayburn, 2010
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rayburn, Tricia.
Siren / Tricia Rayburn.
p. cm.
Summary: After her sister's sudden death, seventeen-year-old Vanessa investigates a series of inexplicable drownings off the coast of Winter Harbor, Maine, and uncovers an unimaginable secret that changes everything.
eISBN: 978-1-60684-182-2 [1. Supernatural--Fiction. 2. Sirens (Mythology)--Fiction. 3. Interpersonal relations--Fiction. 4. Sisters--Fiction. 5. Maine--Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.R2103Si 2010
[Fic]--dc22
2009041155
CPSIA tracking label information:
Random House Production * 1745 Broadway * New York, NY 10019
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