Long Night Dance

by Betsy James
Illustrations by the author
Simon Pulse ~ Simon & Schuster, 2005
ISBN 0-689-85071-9

Fifteen-year-old Kat is more her father's housekeeper than his daughter. Like all Upslope women, Kat must stay close to the hearth, far away from Downshore and its savage people. She must be respectable-and that means covering her wild red hair, finding a husband to take care of, and never singing, swimming, or dancing.

But Kat knows there must be more. She can feel it in her heart. She can hear the drums beating, drawing her to the forbidden beach. When Kat can no longer resist the call, she discovers what she thinks is a fatally injured seal washed up on the shore. Instead, what she has found is a Rig-one of a charmed race of mythical seal people. The only way to save this mysterious man is to defy her father and her community and seek aid in Downshore. But does Kat have the strength to stand on her own?

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