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Multiple Fulminations In The Gathering By Kelley Armstrong

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The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong There are many characters in the novel. To start off, Maya Delaney (the main character) she was adopted by her foster parents but she sees them as if they were her actual parents. Maya is sixteen and moved to Salmon creek on Vancouver Island when she was five. She goes to school at Salmon creek high school and not many people are at her school since she is on an island which happens to be a small medical research town. Multiple culminations are in the story. To start off in the beginning of the book Maya and Serena (Mayas best friend) were in a lake and were talking and then after a few seconds Maya realized that Serena wasn’t talking no more so Maya was calling out her name and minutes after Serena drowned.

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