
You are Sylvia Yule, eighteen and bored of every remedy your family prescribes for restlessness, when new neighbor Geoffrey Moor, freshly home after losing his sister abroad, offers a friendship that asks nothing of you. For your birthday, your brother arrives with Geoffrey and his blunt friend Adam Warwick for two rough days rowing upriver, sleeping wherever the party sleeps. Past midnight in a shared barn, driven out by the heat, you feel someone lie down within reach — and get no answer when you whisper your brother's name.
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