Chapter 19Emma thinks about waiting until Sarah gets home to open the trunks. It might take her mind off the fact that her grandparents have gone home. Emma and Sarah could pretend they’re real-life Nancy Drews, investigating the Mystery of the Girl in the Picture. This is something she and her daughter could share, Emma thinks — the history of the house they live in, the discovery of its secrets, how it all connects them to Sweet Anne’s Gap.
On the other hand, Sarah might not have any interest in the trunks at all. After all, a trunk isn’t a horse, nor is it likely to contain a horse. Emma went through an equine phase, too, when she was Sarah’s age, and she remembers how for almost two years she and her friends lived and breathed anything that had to do with horses. In fact, she’s just e
