She was a rather simple girl, really. Innocent and simple.Golden-haired Alice Lamb was also an only child who always dreamed of being part of a large family. In 1870, she and her Papa, an Anglican vicar, emigrated from England to pastor a church in Louisiana. She faithfully kept a diary, telling it everything and calling it her 'little confidant.' In it, she records the bewildering events that set her on a course toward both passion and tragedy.On a winter morning in 1982, over a hundred years after her death, the man she has haunted since his boyhood finds Alice's diary hidden away in a safe. In it is the truth which will both set him free from his shameful past and on a course toward a different tragedy.
She was a rather simple girl, really. Innocent and simple.Golden-haired Alice Lamb was also an only child who always dreamed of being part of a large family. In 1870, she and her Papa, an Anglican vicar, emigrated from England to pastor a church in Louisiana. She faithfully kept a diary, telling it everything and calling it her 'little confidant.' In it, she records the bewildering events that set her on a course toward both passion and tragedy.On a winter morning in 1982, over a hundred years after her death, the man she has haunted since his boyhood finds Alice's diary hidden away in a safe. In it is the truth which will both set him free from his shameful past and on a course toward a different tragedy.