Seven Tears Into the Sea - by Terri Farley (Paperback)

About the Book

Seventeen-year-old Gwen Cook arrives on the northern California coast to help her grandmother run an inn and soon meets Jessie, a strange boy with no family or home. Although at times he's painfully honest with Gwen, there's something Jessie is not telling her.

Book Synopsis

A teen returns to the small beach town she grew up in and falls for an irresistible boy who's hiding a secret more incredible than she could ever dream in this sweepingly romantic coming of age story steeped in folklore.

Beckon the sea,
I'll come to thee....
Shed seven tears,
perchance seven years...

Before scandal chased her family away from their seaside home, Gwen Cooke met a boy on the beach with unfathomably dark eyes who whispered strange things in her ear then disappeared. Seven years later, Gwen is seventeen years old and back in her hometown for the summer. Her official reason for coming is her grandmother asked her to, but deep inside, Gwen has always felt a tug pulling her back to the ocean and couldn't resist any longer.

When she meets the enigmatic Jesse, Gwen falls head over heels despite his odder qualities that make him seem like something half-tamed--wilder than anyone she's ever met. With her grandmother's old tales of the sea and local folklore filling her ears, Gwen could almost believe Jesse is something other. But that's impossible...isn't it?

About the Author

Terri Farley has always loved horses and is overjoyed that she outgrew her childhood allergy to them. She taught middle school and high school language arts and journalism in inner-city Los Angeles before moving to the cowgirl state of Nevada. Now she rides the range researching the books that have made her an award-winning author and an advocate for the West's wild places and wildlife--especially wild horses. Through school and library visits, Terri continues to work with young people learning to make their voices heard. She lives in a one-hundred-year-old house with her family, which includes her dog, Willow. In true collie fashion, Willow rescued the youngest member of the Farley family, an orphaned kitten named Tamarack.