For years, Pearl S. Buck and Lyle Kenyon Engle gathered Christmas stories with an eye to someday publishing them. After her passing in 1973, Engle wrote an introduction and published these Christmas stories from well-known authors around the world.

A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul. Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated...