by Van Reid (Author)
It is Christmas 1896, in snowy Maine, but holiday cheer eludes country lawyer Daniel Plainway as he contemplates the demise and disappearance of a neighboring family with whom he had shared countless happy times.When Plainway learns that a missing portrait of his friend's daughter has been recovered, he sets out on an odyssey with the ebullient Moosepath League that changes his life and the lives of an orphaned child, a large-hearted ballplayer, and an extraordinary woman he meets along the way.
Author Biography
Van Reid's family has lived in Edgecomb, Maine, since the 1800s. Reid was a long-time bookseller and lives with his wife and children in a house Reid and his brother built on their family's land. His series of novels about the Moosepath League take place in the late 1800s on coastal Maine.