Twelve-year-old Kate Nolan has spent the six years since her mother's accidental death trying to keep everything about her life as normal as possible, but now her father wants to move the two of them from their home in Wakefield, North Carolina, to Spruce River, the small town in New York State's Adirondack Mountains where he grew up. Kate has not been to Spruce River since she was a baby, and she fears this move would turn her life upside down. Wind Rose House chronicles Kate's struggle to come to grips with the possible move and the discoveries she makes about herself, her father, and her late mother.