<p>When silence speaks won't you listen?</p><p></p><p>Fiona Teuling suffers home confinement with a sickly twin and craves days beyond school lessons imaginary adventures and her sister's medical needs. Trapped in a prison with her mother as warden Fiona longs for escape.</p><p></p><p>When her father abandons the family and a sea captain takes his place Fiona's need for the outside world escalates as she seeks forbidden solace in Damon a boy from the docks. Damon convinces Fiona to flee aboard a departing ship. With home a distant echo Fiona braves a world she could have only imagined as the line between fantasy and reality blurs. Will Fiona discover the life she seeks or will Damon be her complete undoing?</p><p></p><p>THE BOY WHO BROUGHT THE SEA is a character study that brings to light isolation's horrors the need for human connection and the consequences of reality unraveled.</p>