Having reluctantly moved to Maine after her father's death in Manhattan, fourteen-year-old Denise forges a healing friendship with a boat owner surrounded by considerable mystery.
Explains how to survive and grow, emotionally and practically, during the stressful life changes related to moving, how to keep old friends and make new ones, how to adapt to a new school and community, and how to cope with an overseas move.
A mysterious young woman moves to a small town in North Carolina where she resists forming any personal relationships at first. As time passes, she begins to put down roots and even to fall in love but a dark secret haunts her.