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hand cranks and stopped occasionally to hold her two hands in front of her face, making them turn the periscope as she searched the horizon for some sign of the familiar.

Land! Rhonda finally shouted.

Surface, Suzy ordered. Were home.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to my editor, Jeanette Perez, and to everyone else at HarperCollins who helped make this book a reality.

Thanks to Dan Lazar, my wonder-agent.

Thanks to Dudley and Janet Askew, owners and operators of The Maple Valley Café in Plainfield, Vermont. Much of the early work on this book was done at Table 8, fueled by their perfect omelets and awe-inspiring home fries.

Thanks to all my friends and family who have been so indulgent and supportive while I figure out this whole being-a-novelist thing.

And, of course, thanks to my readers. This book wouldnt exist without you.

About the Author

JENNIFERMCMAHONis the author ofPromise Not to Tell . She grew up in suburban Connecticut and graduated from Goddard College in 1991. Over the years, she has been a house painter, a farm worker, a paste-up artist, a pizza delivery person, and a homeless shelter staff member, and has worked with mentally ill adults and children in a few different capacities. She lives in Vermont with her partner, Drea, and their daughter, Zella.

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Promise Not to Tell

Credits

Cover design by Mary Schuck

Cover photograph by Jock Sturges

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the authors imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

ISLAND OF LOST GIRLS. Copyright Š 2008 by Jennifer McMahon. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Microsoft Reader March 2008 ISBN 978-0-06-166686-5

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Table of Contents

Prologue

Prologue