By Anne Chandler
In 1910, while twelve-year-old
Addy McLeod waits in a cabin in the Kootenay wilderness of southeastern British
Columbia for her brother, Cask, to send for her, she fends off the unwanted
advances of her alcoholic stepfather. When tragedy strikes, she is forced to
flee and disguise herself as a boy.
Addy’s
determined search for Cask becomes a journey of self-discovery as she
encounters a tough trapper woman who cares for her when she’s ill, works in a
hotel in the silver town of Kaslo on Kootenay Lake, and meets her first love,
Ian.
But just
as Addy’s search for Cask is about to end, the First World War breaks out and
her world is torn apart once again. With great resolve she devotes herself to
joining the war effort on the home front and eventually learns what forgiveness
is all about.
