From the bestselling author of Snow on the Cedars, an emotionally charged, provocative new novel about a girl who claims to have seen the Virgin Mary.

Anne Holmes doesn't seem like a candidate for discovery. A sixteen-year-old runaway, willful and free, lives in the forest. But one November day in the foggy North Fork of Washington State, the Virgin Mary, clear as daylight, comes to her. And immediately Ann becomes the center of everyone's attention. Whether this is a delusion, a deliberate deception, or a true call to faith, the young North Fork priest has to decide.