On Lavendar Mountain

Born to wealth and privilege in northern Georgia after the Civil War, Mattie returns from a fashionable school in Baltimore to her home at Oak Hill. She plans to marry her childhood sweetheart, but double tragedy turns her life upside down and sends her on an unmapped quest to find purpose and happiness.

One day, she is visited by three ragged boys who open her eyes to the needs of the people dwelling in the coves and hollows of Lavendar Mountain, but her efforts to help them are met with scorn and rejection from her neighbors and even her family. Only her young cousin Sophie stands by her as she struggles to bring literacy to the children of rural Georgia.