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Finding Noah, injured, but ok (and still believing in sea ghosts), Faith will also discover more about what the tunnels conceal – of how The Lookout trapped the pas- sengers from that famous shipwreck to steal their riches, with no escape but a perilous sea – but what happened to this treasure?
As help comes and Noah is rescued, there’s no sign of Sam.Which is when another truth emerges: it wasn’t Noah sleeping and eating in the cellar, but Sam – an un- happy runaway who’s been hiding in The Lookout, playing at ghosts to keep from discovery; his shrieking night- mares keeping them awake; hoping for ‘treasure’ to pay his estranged gran to take care of him. (Though Noah still swears there are real ghosts.)
Even with Sam gone, and despite its dark past, saving The Lookout is more important than ever, especially now Un- cle Art has started plans to rip it apart to make himself rich. Faith’s dad can’t have died in vain; she has to finish what he started – and find this treasure to give Mum and Noah back their home.
But as Faith’s mum starts to recover and Faith finally mends the cracks in her friendship with Asha, and as an- other side to Ms Hollowbread emerges – Faith will start to see where ‘home’ really lies.
With Sam returning when Faith needs him most, battling a storm to race against embittered Uncle Art, to finally uncover what lurks beneath The Lookout (treasure of
a different kind) and bring peace to the past – she’ll see what she has to do: she must let The Lookout crack and fall.
Faith may not be able to stop things getting closer to the edge – but there will always be others to stop her falling.