Swimming with Sharks
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Last published Fri, Feb 19, 2016
When seventeen-year old Maya DeSoto gets pulled out to sea while surfing, everyone assumes that she's dead. And in a way, she is. She can no longer live her old life, or hang out with her old friends. Can Maya overcome everything that's happened, to be her new self? Or will someone else get in the way...
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