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Angie Frazier says that her debut young adult novel, Everlasting, is the result of an overactive imagination, an addiction to historical research, and dozens of vintage travel posters plastered to the ceilings of a cottage she rented one long, snowbound winter! Here's the gist of the story:

Sailing aboard her father's ship is all 17-year-old Camille Rowen has ever wanted. But as a lady in 1855 San Francisco, her future is set: marry a man she doesn't love in order to preserve her social standing. On her last voyage before the wedding, Camille learns the mother she has always believed dead is in fact alive and living in Australia. When their Sydney-bound ship goes down in a gale and her father dies, Camille sets out to find her mother and a map in her possession - a map believed to lead to a stone that once belonged to the legendary civilization of the immortals. The stone can bring someone back from the dead. Unfortunately, her father's adversary is also on the hunt for the stone, and she must race him to it. The only person Camille can depend on is Oscar, a handsome young sailor and her father's first mate, who is in love with Camille and whom she is inexplicably drawn to despite his low social standing and her pending wedding vows.

Angie lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two daughters, their big black lab, and a pair of highly destructive cats.

Everlasting (Hardcover)

By Angie Frazier

$17.99

ISBN-13: 9780545114738
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Scholastic Press, 6/2010

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