During many years rumors about Bog Girl agitated Баркли-Коув, quiet small town on the coast of North Carolina. And when at the end of 1969th found the body of Чеза, local playboy, the habitants of small town at once suspected Киа Clarke - girl, that dwelt a hermit on bogs from babyhood. Sensible and clever Киа actually names the house a bog, and by friends - waders, fishes, beasts. But when the pore of maturing comes, Киа opens for itself quite another side of life, a desire to love and be sweet one wakes up in her. And Киа with gladness submerges in this unknown new world - while there is not unthinkable. Novel of famous biologist of Делии Оуэнс is the real ode to nature, tender history about maturing, novel about loneliness, about connection of people, about that, whether people are needed in general to each other, and at the same time it is dark, enigmatic history with murder that whether that it was, whether that no.