Birdy's grandfather is dead—shot by her childhood nanny, Patricia. Her father is bent on bringing Patricia to justice: her mother's having an affair with the minister who has come to bury Birdy's grandfather: her best friend Louis is an escaped slave: and the local doctor's mind has clearly jumped the tracks somewhere along the way.
Who can Birdy turn to for help with her grief and confusion? Who can she trust?
The latest volume in this brightly colored, thought-provoking series brings new challenges and intrigues to The Lost Colony as everyone's secrets begin to unravel and nothing is quite what it had seemed.
This book presents the life of a little girl that has to face many intrigues in life, and she is confused because she does not know whom to trust. Her best friend is forbidden at her house because he knows many secrets. The secrets start to unravel as the story goes on, but it seems that her family is disintegrating. Patricia appears in her life, and Birdy tries to find out what happened to her grandfather. In this sequence of books, Birdy in the book three learns about many situations that had changed her life.