10-year-old Kaya Olson lives in a small Norwegian immigrant settlement in post-Civil War Texas. When her mother is killed in a stage coach robbery, Kaya feels responsible. Can she uncover the secrets her family is keeping to solve the mystery surrounding her mother's death?
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"Norway is as different from Texas as can be. It is a beautiful place, Kaya. Cold, but beautiful."
"If it is so beautiful, why did you leave?"
"Texas can be beautiful, too, but in a different way."
"Mama should’ve stayed in Norway. If she had stayed, maybe she would still be alive! Mama said she was going to visit Grandmother because she was sick. But Grandmother wasn’t sick. Where was Mama going? Why did she take all her things?"
"It was the stagecoach driver."
"It was just bad luck."
"Mama’s death was not your fault."
"Then whose fault was it?"