Fourteen-year-old Lucy Irving, can't stop thinking about a dead girl-a girl who lived a century and a half ago. Lucy becomes obsessed with the past and begins to wonder if it is as dead and unchangeable as it has always seemed to her. Following the death of her grandfather, Lucy spends the summer with her grandmother in Newburyport, Massachusetts. While her primary purpose is to help Gramma, who reluctantly must prepare to move to a smaller less expensive...