Daughter of Winter

Description

As the ground of her past shifts| a girl finds her way to an unexpected future in this compelling historical novel about survival and strength.
It’s 1849| and twelve-year-old Addie lives in the shipbuilding town of Essex| Massachusetts. Her father has left the family to seek gold on the West Coast| and now the flux has taken the lives of her mother and baby brother| leaving Addie all alone. Her fear of living as a servant in some other home drives her into the snowy woods| where she survives on her own for several weeks before a nomadic| silver-haired Wampanoag woman takes her in. Slowly| the startling truth of Addie’s past unfolds. Through an intense ancient ceremony| and by force of her own wits and will| Addie unravels the mystery of her identity — and finds the courage to build a future unlike any she could ever have imagined.