When sixteen-year old Joan Wisdom is adopted by her uncle and moves to Halfway, the Wisdom family's ancestral home, she finds her new family consists of a demanding old-fashioned uncle and an aunt who is rarely around. As she gets to know her Uncle Garret, Joan discovers that he has been cursed, and that she has inherited this curse. As the heart of the new generation of Wisdoms at Halfway, Joan may be able to reject the curse and bing about change for the better.

GRACE MCLEOD ROGERS(1865-1958) lived in Amherst, Nova Scotia. She also wrote short stories and various historical texts, and was a leading member of the women's movement in the first decades of the 20th century. Robin Sutherland is currently completing her PhD in English at the University of New Brunswick. She has written numerous articles and academic papers on Canadian women's literature.

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Robin Sutherland can't remember a time when she wasn't working with words: reading them, studying them, and teaching others how to use them. She holds a Ph.D. in literature and a certificate in Technical Writing, and has worked variously as a university instructor, a writing centre coordinator, and a freelance writer and editor. Also a creative writer, she has published some of her short fiction in Zygote, Room of One's Own, and The Broken City, and has recently completed a collection of stories based on her years as a lifeguard in the Toronto suburbs.

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