The Youngest Princess

On a snowy winter evening at Briar Cottage, the Grace sisters gather by the fire in a scene of warmth, teasing, and quiet reflection, even as worry shadows their home. Maud's reading of a poem about the "youngest princess" opens a conversation about love, family bonds, and the painful estrangement between their father and his mother, while little Margerie wonders what it truly means to love "more than" anything else. That tender domestic calm is shattered when Mrs. Grace is summoned to the hospital and the girls learn that Mr. Grace has been badly injured in a railway accident. As the weeks pass, the family faces fear, poverty, and exhausting uncertainty with prayer and practical courage. Mrs. Grace struggles to keep the household together, the girls grow more helpful and self-denying, and Mr. Grace's long recovery is complicated by the loss of his employment and mounting expenses. Compassion leads the children into contact with a stern old woman and a ragged boy, until a startling revelation changes everything: the mysterious visitor is their grandmother. Her unexpected desire for one of the girls to live with her forces the family to choose between home, duty, and love in this gentle, faith-filled story of hardship, forgiveness, and growing up. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.