Everlasting
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
THE LUXE meets A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY meets INDIANA JONES.Sailing aboard her father's ship is all seventeen-year-old Camille Rowen has ever wanted. But as a lady in 1855 San Francisco, her future is set: marry a man she doesn't love in order to preseve her social standing. On her last voyage before the wedding, Camille learns the mother she has always believed dead is in fact alive and in Australia. When their Sydney-bound ship goes down in a gale, and her father dies, Camille sets out to find her mother and a map in her possession - a map believed to lead to a stone that once belonged to the legendary civilization of the (cont'd)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Part romance, part adventure novel, Frazier's debut makes for a light summer read. In 1855 17-year-old Camille Rowen sets out from San Francisco with her father for one last sea voyage before entering into a passionless but financially advantageous marriage ("She had four months to dig through her soul and unearth the feelings she knew were hiding somewhere"). En route to Australia, the ship goes down in a storm and her father drowns, just after a mysterious letter surfaces from her supposedly dead mother, which involves an enchanted map and stone that holds the power of immortality. Camille finds herself stranded in Melbourne with the first mate, who (it's immediately evident) is the real love of her life, and they begin the arduous trip to Port Adelaide to meet her mother and search for the magic stone, which may be cursed. The characters never break out of their archetypal molds, and the somewhat discursive plot holds few surprises, despite the supernatural elements, but readers whose dreams of adventure and true love mirror Camille's will find her an easy heroine with whom to identify. Ages 12 up.
