The Newcomer

Found this sweet little tale while on my Christmas book splurge. Marigold McCorkle is an interesting heroine, trying to learn to not be so selfish, and Gordon Chambers a hero who's got to learn to stop being a loner. The two little girls, Ruby and Beryl, seem quite real...alternately charming and troublesome. The younger, Ruby, especially struggles with her parents' recent, sudden deaths in shipwreck.