"The south-west coast is the kind of place people escape to. Unless you have lived there all your life, in which case, you long to get away. Rosie, a young journalist working for an ambulance-chasing editor, and Cray, a mineworker, chuck in their jobs for a sea change in Margaret River. Liza and Ferg, along with their son Sam, have been in Margies forever, working their lives away on the farm. Now the coast is under pressure from developers, and the two families come together in the community's efforts to prevent unwanted change. But a natural disaster on the coastline they love opens the deepest wounds of all"--Back cover.