Ivy doesn't want to be a lawyer. Who cares? - well, her father, for starters, who expects his daughter to take up the Breedlove family profession with dedication and enthusiasm. What Ivy wants to be is a historian, a vocation that's getting quite a workout as she prepares a family history in honor of her beloved great-aunt Tib's eightieth birthday. Ivy hikes into the wilds of the Adirondacks to find her reclusive aunt Jo - and to find her own destiny as well.