Meet the Sweetwaters. If the Sweetwaters were body parts, Melissa would be a brain; Fanchone would be a heart; Azalea would be hands; and Chipper would be feet, on account of the fact that he never seems to be around all that much. Not much stays hidden on Oleander Island, the tiny barrier island the Sweetwaters call home, but when the body of a local girl washes up onto the shore of the St. Clair Sound, Melissa and Fanchone find themselves face-to-face with a world they never knew existed--a world that is threatening to swallow them whole. Jack Hodgson, a newcomer to the Island, takes an interest in Melissa immediately, but something seems off. Melissa can charm bees and Fanchone's artwork seems to have a little too much life-of-its-own. When a black-eyed stranger breaks into the Sweetwaters' home, Jack's path veers into a crash-course with Melissa's, a treacherous spin-out of love and death on a road paved by ancients. TENDER YOUNG GREENS is a coming-of-age fantasy about the quest for immortality and the bittersweet in the golden moments that make life worth living.
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