Mattie Gokie has big dreams. Huge dreams. Inconceivable dreams. Dreams that don't involve becoming the wife of a farmer, or staying in her small town. She wants to become a writer, and the chances are slim unless she can make it to New York.... but the chances of making it to New York are even slimmer. To earn some money she takes a job at a hotel, there she becomes burdened with a dangerous secret. "Break a promise to the dead and they'll haunt you, Ada says. Keep the promise and they'll haunt you just the same." Mattie has some important and life changing decisions to make. But there is always a difference between what you should do, and what you want to do.
