"When seventeen-year-old seamstress Josephine Nimetz agrees to take care of a WWI amputee in a remote Alaskan lodge, there's enough friction to melt the Mendenhall Glacier. Her position is only until June, and it pays well enough to overlook the hardship of managing a rustic home and a shell-shocked veteran. Geoff Chambers makes it clear that he isn't too fond of the 'runt' sent to take care of his needs, nor of her painful mistakes"--Back cover.
