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Margaret is locked into poverty and caring for her terminally ill mother, which makes each day the worst day of her life. When she transfers to a new school mid-semester, her soiled reputation follows in gossip and rumors she served in juvenile detention. What is her next step when facing a bleak future and little hope things will change for her or her mother? Her future path is covered with thorns and challenging obstacles. She asks herself why does she bother with education? Perhaps this small light is the only hope she has.

The story of a lake, lake life within the lake, and the one person who serenades it and reads to them after hours when the lake is quiet. After all the visitors have gone home, what happens in the dark, in the lake? Lydia, the only real person who understands lake life, becomes one of them. She begins to understand the secret language of flowers, bull frog and bees.