Victoria's life is forever changed after she meets vagabond Wilson Moon in her small Colorado town in 1948. Fear and heartbreak soon drive the seventeen-year-old to the mountainous woods to make a single sorrowful choice that will haunt her into adulthood.This achingly beautiful story reminds us that "Just as a single rainstorm can erode the banks and change the course of a river, so can a single circumstance of a girl's life erase who she was before." (RR)