Starr is a 14-year-old girl when she loses her mother. She has never known her father and doesn't know what is to become of her. The questions don't stop when her world-adventuring aunt sails into town and announces, and "I'm your mother now. and "Join the Starry-Eyed Adventurer as she grows into the woman she'll become.(After the first chapter, this book is a light, comfortable read. Well, there is a hurricane or two, not necessarily literal.)