Summertime on Australia's Gippsland coast. Forty degree days and less than two weeks into the new school year. It's the time of the year for bathers under school uniforms and beach towels as well as textbooks in backpacks. It's endless hours sweltering in a classroom, longing for the final bell...and the welcome shock of the water's embrace.

In this compelling sequel to Six Steps Down, seventeen year old Aisley Brannon and her friends are a year older and facing decisions about their futures—and not all of them are coping. Meanwhile, somewhere in England, a young girl called Neve Hobson struggles to exist amidst hardship and discrimination. What is it that will make her leave the world she knows to chase her destiny all the way to Australia?

Join the group as they negotiate the make-ups and the break-ups, the cliques and the petty squabbles, the friendship and strength, loyalty and love...as they hurtle like a bullet-train towards that unknown yet inevitable realm of...adulthood.

"Mandi Greenwood writes with a sensitive ear for the experience of teens." —Duncan Smith, author of The Vortex Winder