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Ten years ago, seventeen-year-olds Katie and Frida spent a heatwave summer together on a tidal island and they haven’t spoken since. Katie has tried hard to forget about what happened, all while watching Frida rise to fame as a spiritual influencer with millions of devoted followers. But then a photograph surfaces: a group of girls bathed in summer light, white t-shirts glowing against marsh water. One figure is the celebrated Frida Rae. One is Katie. The others are girls whose dead bodies recently washed up near the island.

On the island of Guernsey, twelve-year-old Celeste Everett vanishes from her bed during a storm. The last people to see Celeste were her best friends—identical twin sisters who refuse to tell the whole truth about that night. The Everetts are one of the island’s wealthiest and most powerful families, while the twins’ mother, Beth, is a struggling single parent with secrets of her own. But when suspicion begins to circle her daughters, Beth is drawn into the search for the missing girl—and into the orbit of a family used to getting exactly what they want.

A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily, from whom she has been estranged since her childhood. Stealing a suitcase of letters, clothes and photographs from her mum's bedroom at the top of a hotel on Venice Beach, the girl spends her summer travelling around Los Angeles, returning love letters and photographs to the men who had known her mother.

Leaving has always come naturally to Eva Elliott. The daughter of a pilot, she spent her childhood leaving schools and cities; now an adult, she enjoys the thrill of saying goodbye much more than the butterflies of a first smile or kiss. There's so much more potential in walking away, and Eva has always had a dangerously vivid imagination. During a rainy summer in Soho, when a golden eagle escapes London Zoo to prowl the city and a beguiling stranger appears around town armed with a conspiratorial smile and a secret