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The House on Mermaid Point by Wendy Wax

Summer brings a series of surprises to unlikely friends Maddie, Avery, and Nikki: a mysterious former rock star with his own island in the Florida Keys, a decaying beachfront mansion, sudden tragedy, a houseboat with only one bathroom . . .

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