"Everyone had high expectations for Hudson Wheeler. His fourth grade teacher even wrote to his parent that Hudson was 'going places.' But everything went downhill after his father dies on the battlefield of Iraq one year later. Now facing his senior year of high school without his tow best friends by his side and with his teacher's letter still haunting him, Hudson seizes homeschooling as an opportunity to retreat from the world. What happens during this year will to be anything but a retreat, as Hudson experiences love and rejection for the first time and solves the painful mystery of the 'the girl in the window'-- an apparition seen only by the WWII vet whose poignant plight forces Hudson out of the comfort zone of boyhood"--Back cover.