Barbara Mueller Pretty Age

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In 1910, a missionary visitor arrives at Sophiny Mumms convent boarding school in Concord, Kansas. Sophiny is smitten. Her best friend Antoinette Dominguez is notand begins a series of strange behaviors breaking all the rules. From Sophiny she extracts three promises, a trunk exchange, and a staged fight before she elopes. Shortly thereafter, Sophiny learns that the missionary is not who he pretends to be and that her friends elopement has resulted in a mysterious disappearance. Antoinettes puzzling diary gives clues about guardians who cause us to lose our way. The missionary reappears, and Sophiny is launched on a travelers tale of her own to search for her missing friend. In the investigation of puzzling enigmas, Sophiny has to use all the resources of emerging womens rights, family relationships, social networks, the new technologies (telephone, photography, and transportation), and patron saints.