Happily After All — Laura C. Stevenson

ONLY IN FAIRY TALES. . .
Becca had never heard a good word about her mother, who had left home when Becca was two years old. For the past eight years, Becca's father had been everything to her -- best friend, protector, and only parent. But now he is dead, and Becca must go to live with Rachel, her mother the stranger.

From her dad's beautiful home in sunny California, Becca moves to Rachel's dirty old farmhouse in freezing cold Vermont. Only in fairy tales did stories like this one end happily. But then real life can sometimes create truth even stranger than fiction.