Annan Water — Kate Thompson

Michael is inexplicably drawn to Annie, but a deep and mysterious river divides them

Michael Duggan feels lost. After the death of his younger sister in a riding accident, his parents have relocated their family and their horse dealing business to Scotland. Days and nights are taken up with caring for the horses and ponies, showing them to buyers, and competing in shows. School is a blur -- Michael has no friends and no clear sense of who he is. He feels completely alone in the world, until he meets Annie, a girl who, like him, seems to want to escape something, a girl who has some dark secrets. Michael desperately wants to be with Annie. But she lives on the opposite side of the treacherous Annan Water...