Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Georgian Bay, 1901. When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen, Mary Craven is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an uncle she's never met. At first, the impassive, calculating girl believes this new manor will be just like the one she left in Toronto: cold, isolating, and anything but cheerful, where employees are treated as staff and never like family. But as she slowly allows her heart to open like the first blooms...