Families -- Fiction

Time: 1849 - 1877

Fifteen-year-old Jenny relates her family's misadventures homesteading in the Adirondack Mountains during the summer.

Eleven-year-old Annie smiled at her dad as she pedaled past the pearly white church gazebo - a still frame etched in his mind forever. He could not have known it would be his last glimpse of her cherub face. In the shadow of the Adirondack Mountains, the town of Dutch Hollow briefly rallied together. Fliers were passed, meetings were held, and a substantial reward was offered. Some even volunteered to set up a toll free call center for tips leading to the whereabouts of Annie Davis.

Love and family are more important than money or career accomplishments. When Isabelle Weston takes leave from work to help her brother, Finn, overcome the depression he's been in since losing his legs, Isabelle's mother convinces her that spending time at the family's lake lodge in the Adirondacks is just the thing Finn needs to regain perspective and start over. She also believes that the surest way to keep him there is to invite along his best friend, Mateo Elizondo. The trouble is that Mateo is also Isabelle's former fiancée.