New Year's Eve with Nan Sherwood's circle of friends should feel like magic. Instead, when Nan reveals she's spending the summer at Emberon, her family's ancestral home in Scotland, the news lands like a small earthquake. Bess, her closest friend, struggles with the possibility of separation. A new schoolmate named Linda Riggs seems to edge into Nan's orbit, threatening to overshadow everything. This is a novel about that particular ache of youth: wanting the world to open up while also desperate to keep everything exactly as it is. Nan faces Scotland with courage, but will the adventures she's dreaming of cost her the friendships that define her? Written in 1937 with warmth and period charm, this is a story about new beginnings and the prices they demand, wrapped in the romantic promise of ancient castles and heather-covered hills.
