The Camp Fire Girls at Driftwood Heights

In 1918 America, being a Camp Fire Girl meant something. Ruth Garnier has just been crowned Torch Bearer, the highest honor a girl can earn before she becomes eligible to lead as a Guardian. It's a victory earned through character, not wealth or popularity. But honors are easy to give; navigating friendship is harder. When Ruth befriends the enigmatic new girl Blanche, her closest friends in the Equilateral Eight grow suspicious. Is Blanche genuinely warm, or is she performing sincerity? Can trust survive when your closest companions question your judgment? As summer arrives at Driftwood Heights, these questions will test the bonds of girlhood in an era when such bonds were everything. Sanderson captures something delicate and true about the way girls move through the world: the loyalty, the small betrayals, the exhausting work of deciding who belongs inside the circle and who stays outside. This isn't a nostalgic artifact. It's a window into how young women once learned the terrible privilege of inclusion.