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Roisín Joyce is a young girl who lives on an island. In fact, she's the only girl there her age. Apart from that, there's nothing very special about Roisín or the island. It's boring and all anyone does there is fish. That's the island's purpose! 
But, winter is coming and the nights on Innis Ochlán are long and dark. That's when people start whispering the old fishermen's stories by the fire again. Old tales that were borne on dark, stormy seas...
It's on one of those nights, when the wind howls and the rain falls, that Roisín begins to hear strange noises coming from the mountain river at night. Could the fishmen's stories be true? Could there actually be something else that lives in the island's waters? 
With nothing else to do in the bleak mid-winter, Roisín investigates the noises and uncovers something. Something that will change her, and the island, forever.All Rights Reserved

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