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Well written novel. A NZ Post Book awards Children & Young Adults finalist.

For a moment the Joss of last summer flashed close, the sun-and-salt smell of his skin, the lupin-flower taste of his mouth. It's been a year since Zillah visited Roimata, the place on the wild West Coast which changed her life last summer. Now she's back, expecting to meet up with Joss and Hep, the brother and sister who both challenged and bewitched her those strange, magical and sometimes terrifying few days. Yet this time, not only have Joss and Hep asked along another guest - who's like the bad fairy at the banquet - the changes Zillah sees in Joss are disturbing. It seems he's heading into a downward spiral: a breakdown he wants to handle in his own way. Dark, an elegantly written, stand-alone sequel to the acclaimed novel Watermark. Watermark was a finalist in the 2004 New Zealand Post Book Awards.