“For high-achieving Margaret Douglas, rowing is everything—her friends, her family, and her way into college. As a senior and varsity captain, she’s sacrificed everything to get where she is. But after mysteriously disappearing over the summer, rumors Was Margaret at Olympic training? Rehab? House arrest? Whatever happened, it haunts her . . . and when she returns at the beginning of the season, Margaret discovers that the sisterhood she once knew has moved on without her.
Meanwhile, spunky freshman and new girl Jo Bryant is being forced to row by her a former Olympian, a Boston legend, and the person Jo blames for her parents’ divorce. Jo knows nothing about the sport, or why Margaret’s return has everyone at the boathouse whispering, but she does know Margaret is the only person who doesn’t treat her like a joke.
For both girls, the varsity team is a fierce, messy found family; a sisterhood earned in five a.m. wake-ups and blistered hands. But there are secrets and scandals waiting to surface—and with the biggest race of the year on the horizon, Margaret, Jo, and their teammates are about to find out just how deep they go.” - taken from Goodreads.
Jo has been given an incredible opportunity that she doesn't want, a private school education where her father teaches. Her parents have also signed her up to row for the Boston Rowing Club, a sport where former Olympian father is a well-known coach. Jo and her father do not have a close relationship because of her parents divorce.
Thrown into the girls rowing club as a novice. Jo is immediately accepted because of her father's status. An outsider looking in, she sees the return of Margaret Douglas to the team and the downfall in her status as she loses her captaincy and boat seat as the mystery deepens over where she was during the summer. And Jo has a front row seat to the drama surrounding Margaret in the boat house.
What really happened to Margaret over the summer that she doesn't want to talk about? And will Jo fall in love with rowing or be able to build a relationship with her father?
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