It’s about a girl named Jamie Peddle whose life is pretty bad. Since she was 3 her father had been missing and her mother turned ill.
The story starts where Jamie is running from a man named Lee Whitaker because he thinks she has something that could tell of her father’s whereabouts. She soon meets a boy a couple years older than her named Blake Wilson.
The story goes on with her mother dying and Jamie and Blake finding a letter that gives a clue of where her father may be. The clue says that her father is somewhere in western Canada (they live in Penzance England).
The teens soon find their way across the Atlantic by getting a ride from a captain of a cargo ship named Captain Sha. Sha seems to know lots about what’s going on in the world.
Before Sha tells the teens yes he takes Blake and tells him something he must promise. Blake agrees and the children get a place to stay on the boat, but not their own room.
A five-year-old girl named Elizabeth and her half brother Billy accompanies them.
Elizabeth and her brother tell the others the story of their life.
A relationship is started between Billy and Jamie but is ended one day when Billy disappears.
The boat arrives in Canada and the children go on their adventure. They find out the cause of why people are disappearing and meet many people who shortly die.
Once the trip on the Trans Canada Railway drops them off in B.C, Elizabeth turns ill quickly and is not saved.
All along the way Lee was following the two teens and follows them to Jamie's fathers hide out.
Once Jamie's father opens the door he sees Jamie and knows she’s his child. Jamie soon learns the truth of why he left and is horrified. She leaves her father but he tries to stop her.
Lee, also hearing the reason is miffed and shots Jamie's father.
also its going to be a series of three books, what should theseries be called
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