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A sinking boat... A girl in disguise... A disappearing sea...
When Fortune Sharpe carves a boat from a tree with her beloved brother Jem, she's only having a bit of fun. But now is not the time for a girl to be drawing attention to herself and she is sent away to find work dressed as a boy. Luckily a rich manor house is hiring.
Yet Barrow Hall's inhabitants harbour dangerous secrets of their own, the suspicious owner is hunting for witches, and the house itself is a little too close to the sea...” DRIVE