Lucy Gault

Lucy is the only child of Everand and Heloise Gault. She lives in Lahardane, the Gault family estate with her parents and the servants Henry, Bridget, Kitty Teresa, and Hannah. She is much adored and happy in this home, and during the summer of her eighth year there is also a neighbor's dog that she has befriended. Her parents' announcement that they are moving to England after three boys tried to burn the house down distresses her. She runs away the night before the move and, mistakenly taken for dead, ends up being abandoned by her parents. Henry and Bridget raise her in Lahardane as they wait for her parents' return. Her mother dies before she is reunited with them, but her father comes home during her adult life. His return is a little too late. She has already turned down a marriage proposal from a man...