Vanessa Blinkly is a frightened ten year old when she moves with her mother to the Rata River Valley, away from the father she loves and the only home she has ever known.Over the next five years, she struggles to adjust to life with a man who isn’t her father, a teenage boy who isn’t her brother, and a mother who doesn’t seem like her mother anymore.

Liam O'Leary hates the intrusion of the new housekeeper and her brat of a daughter with a stiff bristle brush for a backbone and unusual ways. But when Vanessa returns from school to the Rata River Valley in her sixteenth year, one choice will impact both their lives for years to come.

From the author of The Watershed comes the richly written tale of Vanessa Blinkly, and her love for a crazy black horse and a man who couldn’t stay to make a difference.

Field of the White Snow. All they needed were forty-eight sunsets.

A Clifton Falls Companion Novel. Can be read as a standalone.

Contains sexual references.