From the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of True Places comes a disarming and emotional novel about a family in distress and a daughters mission to keep it from going under. Chesapeake Bay 1980. Eighteenyearold Verity Vergennes is the captain of the USS Nepenthe and her seven younger siblings are her crew. The shipan oyster boat transformed into a makebelieve destroyeris the heart of the Vergennes family a place both to play and to learn responsibility. But Veritys ha