Elizabeth Goodweather's daughter Rosemary returns home determined to solve a nineteen-year-old riddle: the mysterious disappearance of her best friend, Maythorn Mullins, when the girls were just ten. In her search for the truth she is confronted with a complex thicket of relationships and must explore the realm of magic and Cherokee legend that Maythorn shared secretly with Rosemary.--Source other than Library of Congress.