In 1948, while her mother is off making yet another movie, fourteen-year-old Allison O'Brian makes her way from New York to Oregon to see the grandfather she has never met and to learn what she can about her supposedly dead father
Fourteen-year-old Allison finds herself the center of a custody battle between her glamorous, but neglectful, movie star mother and her long-absent artist father who wants her to live with him in a small Oregon town
Allison O'Brian returns to Oregon, where she copes with her newcomer's jitters before starting high school, but as she's beginning to adjust, her father tells her a terrible secret that could destroy their future
In 1948, while her mother is off making yet another movie, fourteen-year-old Allison O'Brian has settled in to a new life in Tamaqua Point, Oregon and is eagerly looking forward to her first traditional family-style Christmas until a phone call from her mother threatens to disrupt her plans