New York author Eileen Charbonneau is a storyteller whose first two novels, The Ghosts of Stony Clove and In the Time of the Wolves, enthralled her readers and won widespread critical praise and numerous awards. In the years since, Charbonneau has created several more books and made a name for herself as the writer of evocative and insightful historical fiction appealing to a wide range of readers. One of her recurrent themes is the need for tolerance and understanding between people; it is a message about which Charbonneau has strong feelings. As the author once commented, she is motivated by her own ethnicity and childhood experiences. "My family's story was the first I wanted to tell. I'm a multi-ethnic product of Irish, Slovene, French, Canadian, and Native American roots that somehow came together on the sidewalks of New York when this century was young. . . . Striving to understand another...