Twelve-year-old Rosamond Sterling, ward to the Pemberly family--the wealthiest family in Candor--has vanished. Even though she was known as a silly orphan girl, Jackson Monroe Pemberly IV and his son can't make peace with the loss. Her disappearance, though a setback for the family, is slowly forgotten by their acquaintances. She was hardly a part of polite society, and life moves forward without her. Unfortunately for her, though, without the Pemberlys, she is no one. Stripped of all things that made her Rosamond Sterling in the first place, she clings to the past and looks to the future, embedding her hopes in the letters she writes home. No matter how discouraged she feels, she must start anew and better herself, until she is deemed fit to come home. But can she achieve such a feat, even when all hope is gone?
