Audio Book Description:
At twelve, Emily Parmenteris left mostly to herself afterher mother dissapears and her beloved older brotherdies. Emily has built a life around thefaded plantation where her remote fatherand hunting-obsessed brothers raise hunting spaniels. It is a meager, masculine world, but to Emily it hasmagic. And then comes Lulu Foxworth, troubled daughter of a truly grand plantation, who has run away from herhectic Charleston debutante season. Where Emily`s father sees Lulu as an entree to society, Emily is threatened and mystified. Lulu has a powerfulenchantment of her own, and this, along with the dark, crippling secret she brings with her, will inevitably blow Emily`sworld apart and let the real onein - but at a terrible price.