December 7, 1941 changed life forever. Uprooted from her Michigan home, a young girl moves with her parents, to a primitive desert near old Palm Springs in an effort to save her father's life. Experience WWII through her eyes as she faces challenges that shape her personality and mystical moments that fill her heart with wonder - the first time she hears an angel voice - the strange tale of a reappearing Butterfi eld stagecoach in the canyon. Leaving country school to attend school in Palm Springs, she wants to look glamorous like the city girls, but then, there are Daddy's old country ideas and the freckles...