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In Newfoundland’s Cook’s Cove, summers are short but sweet. Fifteen-year-old Melinda is looking forward to two idyllic months of garden parties and socials with her cousins Rebecca and Kate.Rebecca’s the goody, goody homemaker, well trained by her strict and formidable mother, Grace. Studious Kate is determined not to let a boyfriend get in the way of her plans for the future. Then there’s outspoken, scandalous Melinda with her smoking and drinking and sneaking off with her boyfriend, with whom she is tempted to do "dangerous things down behind the fish shack." The girls are like sisters and nothing can ever come between them.But when a stranger comes to the village and invites Rebecca to go to Boston to develop her artistic talent, the cousins are suddenly exposed to the possibilities and dreams of the outside world.Aunt Grace however forbids Rebecca to leave. The question is why and impetuous Melinda leads the crusade to find out. The discovery brings her face to face with desperately difficult choices as she finds that she herself has become the keeper of the family secrets.

Arriving at the small outport village of Cook's Cove on Newfoundland's west coast, Melinda embraces the closeness she shares with her two cousins, Kate, who lives in the city, and Rebecca, who lives with her strict mother, but when a stranger comes to town and asks Rebecca to go to Boston to explore her artistic abilities, Melinda is forced to make some difficult choices.

In the village of Cook's Cove, Newfoundland, in the 1950s, Melinda is close to her two cousins, Kate and Rebecca, but when a stranger comes to town and asks Rebecca to go to Boston to explore her artistic abilities, Melinda must make some difficult choices.In a Newfoundland village in the 1950s, Melinda is close to her cousins, Kate and Rebecca, but when a stranger in town asks Rebecca to go to Boston to explore her artistic abilities, Melinda must make some difficult choices.