Awakening on a cold winter morning to find the body of his ninety-four-year-old 'Tante' Marguerite Deo lying dead outside his cabin, carpenter James Jack must confront the mystery of her death and the secrets that have impacted his own life, in a story that moves from turn-of-the-century New England, to New Orleans during the Depression, to the present day. A first novel. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.