Mattie has a choice about her own life's path. Her body was found in a lake in the Adirondacks and became one of the most notorious murder trials in New York State history. Do the letters hold a truth Mattie does not want to face? The letters belong to Grace Brown, a nineteen year old girl who was unmarried and pregnant and who really lived. She holds a pack of letters written by a young guest at the hotel who has turned up dead. Mattie has two truly difficult choices to make. You are about to step into the life of Mattie Gokey and you will come to know her town, the hotel where she works and the deep feelings that run through her veins. Will their dreams come true? Will they get a happy ending? She has earned a scholarship to Barnard College and her good friend, African American Weaver has earned a scholarship to Columbia.
But it's 1906 and Mattie is caught in the struggle of her times. She has a love of words and treasures her dictionary. Why isn't life like it is in the books we read? Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey knows her Dickens and her Austen through and through.
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