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at the fact Noah has gone. . . to eventually confess – to a terrible lie. She did see Faith’s dad go out in the boat that stormy day, four months ago; they’d argued, and he was trying to prove to her he was right, that there was treas- ure buried underground that would make everything
ok. Her mum didn’t mean to lie: shock and guilt made her lock up the truth inside of her.And take to her bed. And what’s worse – deep down, Faith guessed it all along too. She was the one who insisted Dad wouldn’t have taken the boat out in a storm, who encouraged Mum to think that way and never discuss it again. But now there’s nowhere to hide from the truth: her dad is never coming home.
Forced to leave The Lookout to live with Uncle Art, everything seems lost – her dad, Noah, her house.Yet Faith must put her grief on hold if she’s to get her family back home. She must find Noah and return her family to The Lookout.
While the whole community search for her brother, Faith and Sam return to what they now know are old smugglers’ tunnels beneath The Lookout. But as they start to unravel more of The Lookout’s secrets (it seems the whole town was involved in ‘wrecking’ and smug- gling), Faith will find out Sam is guarding his own: Ms Hollowbread claims she has no grandson. She has never met Sam.
Fearful that Sam might be Noah’s ghost, Faith has no time to confront him. On discovering what Uncle Art took, they now have a map of the tunnels – and they know where Noah might have gone.