Big Water

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Publication Year:
2018

ISBN-13: 9781459815728

Seventeen-year-old Christina McBurney has led a sheltered life. But when her twin brother, Jonathan, dies of consumption, Christina, unwilling to be farmed out as a nursemaid or teacher, runs away from home and her destiny. In Owen Sound she boards the <i>Asia</i>, a steamship that transports passengers and freight throughout the Great Lakes. She doesn't really have a plan other than to get to Sault Ste. Marie. She'll figure things out once she's settled.<br>

<br>But a violent storm suddenly rises on Georgian Bay, and the overloaded and top-heavy steamship begins to sink. Christina is tossed overboard. Pulled to safety just before she loses consciousness, she finds herself on a lifeboat, surrounded by a number of bedraggled and terrified passengers and crew. One by one they succumb to their injuries, until only Christina and a brooding young man named Daniel are left alive.<br>

<br>The usual rules of society no longer apply—Daniel and Christina must now work together as equals to survive.<br>

<br><i>Big Water</i> is a fictional account of the real-life story of the only two survivors of the sinking of the SS <i>Asia</i> in 1882.