Coming of Age in a time of war. The year is 1944 and everyones life is deeply affected by the global conflict of World War II. Sarah Bowers finds herself spending her twelfth summer in the tiny town of Beaufort on the North Carolina coast. She is disappointed to be leaving her friends in the city of Raleigh, and assumes her summer will be long and boring. Learning the art of fishing, sharing a secret hide away, a cousins wedding and weathering a horrific hurricane all conspire to make Sarahs summer anything but boring.
