Publisher's Synopsis
When Lena Lombardi, at eight years old, loses her immigrant parents to the Spanish Flu, a local priest and friend of the family helps her adjust to the Presbyterian Orphanage of Philadelphia. She spends her adolescence there and at sixteen becomes a member of the staff, living at the Presbyterian Home for Widows and Single Women, nearby, grateful not to be in the Philadelphian bread lines of the Great Depression. When the opportunity arises for Lena at twenty years old to become a housekeeper for Alan Woodruff, a wealthy resident of the seaside village of Cape May Point, New Jersey, she leaves the security of the orphanage and converts Mr Woodruff's dysfunctional family of a grandfather, father, and son into a first time home of her own.
