Why would she come alone and with four children, under the age of ten, in tow? Hosea Baker questions a multitude of scenarios when his younger sister makes the trip from Sodus, New York, to live near him and the Shiawassee River. Rhoda Seymour joins the Baker family in the spring of 1836 in what will soon be Newburg, Michigan. Hosea questions her motives, despite the joy it brings him. Yet as winter clouds form, Hosea finds his sister in...