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By Katherine Johnson
General Fiction
On Tasmania's remote Maria Island, eighteen-year-old Min is trying to break free from her controlling father, the island's head ranger. Her unlikely ally is Werner, an eccentric, homeless biologist who has always taught her to care for the imperilled natural world around her. Then Lucie, a journalist haunted by her family's role in the thylacine's extinction, arrives from London to investigate the island's Tasmanian devil conservation project, discovers a community grappling with the tension between progress and preservation, care and control. A chain of events is set in motion that ends in a shocking and mysterious death.