Follows a young boy who is reluctantly sent to spend the summer in a remote part of Nova Scotia. As the summer wears on, the hero forges solid friendships with other kids in the small fishing community and is changed forever by the experience.
Jeanine, spending the summer on the Nova Scotia seacoast while her father works on a secret project, senses danger as she becomes convinced that one of her father's co-workers is selling information for use by enemy submarines.
Greta, a lonely child living in Nova Scotia, finds friendship and comfort when she travels back in time to a place that exists only when the magical fog rolls in.
When ten-year-old Elizabeth Brightman and her parents move from Connecticut to Nova Scotia in 1762 to farm the land left vacant after the expulsion of the Acadians, she is troubled that their new home looks just like the one in her recurring dream of a house on fire.
