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1943. Britain is at war, and hundreds of children are being evacuated from their homes in the hope of escaping the bombs. Among them are a group of boys and girls boarding a flight that is supposed to take them somewhere safe. Instead, the plane crashes over the Atlantic, leaving the survivors stranded on an island that doesn't appear on any map. Separated from each other, both groups believe they are alone - until the girls begin finding footprints outside their camp, hearing voices in the trees and discovering strange symbols carved into the earth. Lillian Reed
knows what they mean, but she's keeping that part to herself. She has always been fascinated by the old rituals and superstitions people whisper about, but she never expected to find evidence of them on an island in the middle of nowhere. When the two groups finally discover each other, survival becomes more complicated than they could have imagined. With no adults, no way home and the war raging somewhere beyond the horizon, fear begins to take control. Alliances form, secrets are buried, and something about the island seems to be changing them. Because they aren't the first people to get stranded there. And they may not be the last.