Amelia is the daughter of Elliot Barrow, founder and headmaster of Ponderosa Academy, a high- achieving school with mostly Native-American students. She's devoted to her father but she's 16 and is seeking an independence which he seems reluctant to grant. Is he just be over-protective? Yet why had he fled New York in the l960s to raise his daughter in the wilds of the West? Does he want to keep her cut off from the rest of the world? She longs to understand more about her past, yet it would be so complicated to tell her . Then Helen arrives. She's a theatrical director and Eliot, her first-husband whom she'd loved but lost, had called and asked her to direct The Tempest. Soon she's getting to know the daughter of the woman who'd stolen her husband. Re-married, she doesn't foresee falling in love with Calbert Fleecing, the assistant headmaster and then there is the parallel odyssey of Willa Llewelyn and her single-parent father Nat living in Connecticut; and their trip together across America to uncover Willa's roots. This vivid cast of characters will have profound impacts on one another's lives, acting out their own Tempestuous drama in this emotional and inspirational tale.
- ISBN10 0446533319
- ISBN13 9780446533317
- Publish Date 1 March 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 December 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Little, Brown & Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English