Deborah Joy Corey"s long-awaited second novel fulfills the promise of her first. It is the story of Elizabeth, a fifteen-year-old girl from a poor fishing town, who finds herself alone after her sister"s banishment, her mother"s tragic death, and her father"s abandonment-and turns for comfort to an older man who will cast an emotional and erotic shadow over her life, even years after their relationship is over...