Under the Dusty Moon

by Suzanne Sutherland

Kristine Scarrow

  Andy Burton knows a thing or two about survival. Since she was removed from her mother’s home and placed in foster care when she was nine, she’s had to deal with abuse, hunger, and homelessness. But now that she’s eighteen, she’s about to leave Haywood House, the group home for girls where she’s lived for the past four years, and the closest thing to a real home she’s ever known. Will Andy be able to carve out a better life for herself and find the happiness she is searching for?

  In Search of Sam

  Kristin Butcher

  Raised by her mother, eighteen-year-old Dani Lancaster only had six weeks to get to know her father, Sam, before he lost his battle with cancer. It was long enough to love him, but not long enough to get to know him — especially since Sam didn’t even know himself. Left on the doorstep of an elderly couple when he was just days old, and raised in a series of foster homes, Sam had no idea who his parents were or why they had abandoned him. Dani is determined to find out. With nothing more than an address book, an old letter, and a half-heart pendant to guide her, she sets out on a solo road trip that takes her deep into the foothills, to a long-forgotten town teeming with secrets and hopefully answers.

  Copyright © Suzanne Sutherland, 2016

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  Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

  Sutherland, Suzanne, 1987-, author

  Under the dusty moon / Suzanne Sutherland.

  Issued in print and electronic formats. ISBN 978-1-4597-3202-5 (paperback).--ISBN 978-1-4597-3203-2 (pdf).--ISBN 978-1-4597-3204-9 (epub)

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