While searching for the ghost that haunts the house in which their mother is a maid and dressmaker for an English officer's wife, Sarah and Stephen become secretly involved in the Revolutionary War effort.
While helping his grandfather herd and shear his flock of sheep on a small island off the coast of Maine, twelveyear-old Gabe encounters a mysterious woman who may be the ghost of a drowned milkmaid.
In England with her mother for a year, dreamy Diana meets an eccentric old man and shares his frustrations and use of the royal family as a means of escape.
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.
