A lifetime of family secrets are revealed after thirty-five-year-old carpenter James Jack Wright finds his beloved "Tante" Marguerite Deo, the woman who raised him from the age of four, dead in the winter woods outside their cabin.
While living in Cape Light during the years 1904 to 1906, thirteen-year-old Amanda struggles to obey her widowed father's orders not to see the boy she loves, despite her angry resentment of her parent's courtship of a local widow.
As they prepare for Christmas, the March sisters have a difficult time deciding what gifts to give Marmee. Taken from the first two chapters of "Little Women," with a new ending to the story.
