When Thankful Chelmsford died, she told her fourteen-year-old daughter, Walking Breeze, to seek out her family-the Chelmsfords of Salem, Massachusetts. Walking Breeze will find solace there, she said.

But Ebie Chelmsford has other ideas. Ebie knows that her half-Shawnee "cousin" will steal her place as Grandfather's favorite. And Ebie will do anything to stop that- even trying to prove that the girl is an imposter.

Ebie thinks Walking Breeze is destroying the home Aunt Hannah has fought to keep together. But it's Ebie's actions, ultimately, that risk tearing the fragile threads that bind the Chelmsfords together, like the still-tattered pieces of the family quilt...