When Ada Baldwin watches her mother die giving birth to yet another baby girl, she is changed forever by the experience.
It is 1884 and Ada and her 3 younger sisters must now learn to live without their beloved mama in their midst.
The younger children are not much touched by their loss, but Ada and her next-in- age sister Nell are devastated by the tragedy. They each try to cope in their own way, and Ada finds herself as much in sympathy,...