Sweetwater Creek — Anne Rivers Siddons

Twelve-year-old Emily Parmenter survived her mother's abandonment and her beloved older brother's death -- and now finds purpose in training her father's magnificent spaniels . . . and refuge in the magic of Sweetwater Creek.

But a new friend has entered Emily's life -- a troubled daughter of privilege whose secrets threaten to blow a hole in Emily's beautiful world and let the real one in . . .